Known for his sense of humor, Ryan Reynolds seemed to joke about the legal drama surrounding his wife, Blake Lively, and Justin Baldoni over their movie “It Ends With Us” during “SNL50“ on Feb. 16.
During an interactive Q&A-style skit hosted by “SNL” alums Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Reynolds appeared in the audience and stood up to ask a question.
“Ryan Reynolds, how’s it going?” Poehler asked the “Deadpool” star.
“Great,” he replied before taking a beat to continue.
“Why, what have you heard?” he asked, alluding to the “It Ends With Us” drama.
The audience laughed, while Lively, seated next to him, looked over at him in concern.
Fey and Poehler, meanwhile, raised their hands, pleading ignorance, like they hadn’t heard about anything about Reynolds or Lively that may have generated headlines in recent weeks.
Reynolds continued by asking if it was safe to eat the material used to make the Coneheads, the long heads worn by Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman in the popular sketches from the early years of “SNL.”
“Edible? No, and based on them being made in 1975, I’d assume that they’re highly toxic,” Fey said.
“So, if somebody, hypothetically, took a couple of nibbles backstage and, you know, got excited, should they go to the hospital?” Reynolds asked.
The eight-minute skit featured a wide array of celebrities who asked the “SNL” duo questions, including Quinta Brunson, Jon Hamm, Nate Bargatze, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Keith Richards, Bad Bunny, Ray Romano, Jason Momoa and Peyton Manning.
Reynolds and Lively’s appearance comes as Lively and Baldoni are engaged in an ugly and public legal battle. They will head to trial beginning March 9, 2026. Lively starred in “It Ends With Us” alongside Baldoni, who also directed the 2024 film, which is based on the bestselling novel by Colleen Hoover.
Lively has sued Baldoni in federal court, accusing him of sexual harassment while they shot the movie and then conducting a smear campaign against her in the media. The suit came after she filed a sexual harassment complaint against him with the California Civil Rights Department this past December, according to court documents obtained by NBC News.
Baldoni fired back by suing Lively, Reynolds, Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s PR firm in a U.S. district court in New York for $400 million for defamation. Lively’s representatives responded in a statement to NBC News at the time, saying Baldoni’s lawsuit is “another chapter in the abuser playbook” and “evidence will show that the cast and others had their own negative experiences” with Baldoni and his production company, Wayfarer.
Baldoni also sued The New York Times for libel, after it published an article in December 2024 about Lively’s allegations. The Times said in a Jan. 1 statement that it plans to “vigorously defend against the lawsuit.”
