Ryan Reynolds Doesn’t Deny ‘Deadpool’ Mocks Justin Baldoni, but Says He Can’t Sue Over ‘Hurt Feelings’

The actor singles out the “It Ends With Us” director’s “thin-skinned outrage” in his motion to dismiss filed Tuesday in New York

Justin Baldoni, Ryan Reynolds as Nicepool
Justin Baldoni, Ryan Reynolds as Nicepool (CREDIT: Getty Images/Sony Pictures)

In a motion to dismiss Justin Baldoni’s and Wayfarer Studios’ lawsuit against him and wife Blake Lively over “mocking” him in “Deadpool vs. Wolverine,” Ryan Reynolds said that the “It Ends With Us” actor and director’s complaints amount only to “hurt feelings.”

A key passage in the dismissal, obtained by TheWrap and filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, obtained by TheWrap, says that Baldoni’s “thin-skinned outrage over a movie character, the satirical ‘woke’ Nicepool, does not even pretend to be tied to any actual legal claims.

“Instead, the motion states, “it falls into the [First Amended Complaint]’s general allegation of ‘hurt feelings,’ which in reality is nothing more than a desperate effort to advance the same curated ‘bully’ image that the Wayfarer Parties created and disseminated in the retaliation campaign they launched against Ms.

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