T.J. Miller Calls Ryan Reynolds a 'Good Friend' Now, 2 Years After Saying He 'Would Not Work with' Him Again
After claiming in 2022 that Ryan Reynolds "hates me," ‘Deadpool’ costar T.J. Miller now calls him “such a good friend”
After previously saying his collaborations with Ryan Reynolds were over, T.J. Miller is now calling his Deadpool costar a "good friend.”
"We talked a little while ago," Miller, 43, said of Reynolds, 48, during a recent appearance on SiriusXM’s The Bonfire.
Of possibly returning to his role as bartender Weasel from the first two Deadpool movies, Miller said, “I think he's just been such a good friend right now that I think it would be really— I think that would be awesome."
The one-time Silicon Valley star did not join Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in this summer’s Deadpool & Wolverine after a slew of personal and professional troubles.
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In 2016, he was arrested and jailed for allegedly assaulting an Uber driver, later reaching a settlement. In 2017, an anonymous woman reported that Miller sexually assaulted her, an allegation he denied. And in 2018, the actor was arrested in New York on federal charges relating to faking a bomb threat aboard an Amtrak train; charges were ultimately dismissed.
Following 2018’s Deadpool 2, Miller gave conflicting reports of his collaboration with Reynolds. In 2022 on The Adam Carolla Show, he described a "weird moment" on set during which the Canadian producer-star was "horrifically mean to me" while in character as Deadpool.
"Would I work with him again? No. I would not work with him again," Miller said at the time. "I sorta wish him well because he's so good at [playing] Deadpool, and I think it's weird that he hates me."
A month later on SiriusXM's Jim Norton & Sam Roberts Show, the actor-comedian claimed that recollection was "misconstrued" by the press.
"It was just me telling a story from on set that I thought was weird," he said then. Reynolds "emailed me the next day… It was a misunderstanding, so I emailed him back and now it's, like, fine."
Miller appears to have also reversed course on feelings about director Michael Bay after starring in 2014’s Transformers: Age of Extinction. “I was not sure that I would work with him again,” he said on SiriusXM’s The Bonfire. “But now I’m buddies with him enough that I would do almost anything that he wanted to do.”
Miller’s last movie role was 2020 Drew Barrymore movie The Stand In.