Coronavirus: Ryan Reynolds doesn’t ‘miss masculine company at all’ while quarantining
Actor says ‘most men tend to be the architects of someone’s demise’
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Your support makes all the difference.Ryan Reynolds has explained why he doesn’t “miss masculine company at all” while opening up about his joy at being quarantined in a house full of women.
On Monday, Reynolds appeared remotely on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where he revealed he is currently practising social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic by staying home with his wife, Blake Lively, their three daughters, and his mother-in-law.
“I’m here with my wife, Blake, our three daughters – five, three, and about eight months, those aren’t their names, those are ages – and my mother-in-law, she’s also here,” the Deadpool actor told the host.
After learning that the actor is the only male in a house of five women, Colbert asked Reynolds if he has been missing “masculine company”.
“Is that good for you? Is that a nice refreshing change of pace or do you miss masculine company like mine?” the late-night host asked.
In response to the inquiry, Reynolds said he doesn’t miss being in the company of other men at all – as “really, most men tend to be the architects of someone’s demise”.
“So it’s fine. I like being here with just the girls, I like doing the girl stuff,” he continued. “You know, like I try not to push gender-normative ideas on my kids as they were born but each one, when they came out that chute, they really wanted to make dresses, they wanted to dress in hot pink all day, so that’s what I do.”
“This morning I made dresses out of tissue paper which was fun, for them,” the father-of-three added.
This is not the first time the actor has opened up about the happiness he feels about being the father of three girls.
In December, the 43-year-old discussed the couple’s youngest daughter for the first time, telling the hosts of the Today show that he’d have it “no other way” and he is doing his part “to wipe men off the face of the earth”.
During the interview with Colbert, Reynolds also discussed the coronavirus pandemic and the ways in which he and Lively, who donated $1m to be split among food banks and $400,000 to New York hospitals, are doing what they can to help.
“I just felt it important and Blake felt it very important to give back,” he said.
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