Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are known for their hilarious online trolling of one-another across social media.
But the actors got sincere about their 16-year friendship as they interviewed each other ahead of the release of their newest movie together Deadpool & Wolverine.
Speaking about the secret to their long friendship in Hollywood, Reynolds compared it to his marriage with actress Blake Lively, and said the same was required for both.
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“I think the secret sauce to a long-lasting Hollywood friendship is not too dissimilar to having a partner or a marriage,” Reynolds said in the interview for People magazine.
“I am genuinely rooting for you, all the time. I want you to win,” he said of Jackman.
“Since the day we met in Sydney I root for you and I just want to see you live the most full throated life that you can possibly live.
“It’s the same way I feel about Blake, I’m rooting for her, I know she’s rooting for me, and it’s why we’re so connected.”
Jackman agreed and said it was the ability to say anything without feeling judged that he found special.
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”Ever since I’ve known you, and I would say in particular in like the last five, 10 years, we’ve had more time where we go for our walks because you’re an unbelievable listener,” Jackman said.
“So you can tell me anything and I can tell you anything, and I don’t feel like you’re going to be judging or necessarily giving me the answer: ‘Do this.’ And I think that has been the key.”
The A-Listers met on set of set of X-Men Origins: Wolverine in Australia in 2008.
They reminisced during the interview about their first meeting, revealing the lessons they learned from each other in a compliment-filled chat.
The wide-reaching discussion also touched on both of their ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ wins, as well as what they miss most about their homelands.
Aussie Jackman said he misses the people and the ocean the most.
“I don’t see my brothers who live there nearly enough, my dad, my best mates, and I miss the food, I miss the ocean,” Jackman said.
“I mean, the ocean I can get that anywhere but my lifestyle in Sydney – I wake up, [get a] coffee – unbelievable coffee – I workout, I jump in the ocean as the sun’s coming and we watch the sun coming up and I think ‘why am I not here every morning?’ I miss that.”
Reynolds, who is Canadian, likened his home country to a “second parent” and believes he wouldn’t have made it in showbiz without the grounding he received there.
The pair also spoke about parenting as expats and how they teach their kids about their homelands while living in America.
Jackman said this was something that was important to him and ex-wife Deborra-Lee Furness.
“It was a really important thing that they felt part Australian and I’m really proud that my kids are, I think if you ask them, they’ll say ‘I’m Australian’,” he revealed.
Reynolds reveals his and Lively’s kids proudly say they’re “half-Canadaian, half-American”, saying they have Canadian passports and spent their formative years there as Reynolds filmed Deadpool 1 & Deadpool 2 in Vancouver.
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The father-of-four then joked about the couple adding to the brood almost each Deadpool film, saying: “Hopefully we don’t do a Deadpool 8 because I don’t want eight kids”.
Deadpool & Wolverine marks the third film in the franchise, which is a spin-off from the X-Men series.
The movie hits Australian cinemas on July 25.
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