--- title: Ryan Reynolds Talks About First Date With Blake Lively description: He says there were 'fireworks' between them canonical: https://time.com/4217505/ryan-reynolds-blake-lively-first-date/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-11T16:55:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:57.917Z og:title: Listen to Ryan Reynolds On His 'First Date' With Wife Blake Lively og:description: He says there were 'fireworks' between them og:url: https://time.com/4217505/ryan-reynolds-blake-lively-first-date/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd74b160873f1d37b/69887d3acf40a87ecac41ea3/gettyimages-509513240.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: GettyImages-509513240 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Listen to Ryan Reynolds On His 'First Date' With Wife Blake Lively twitter:description: He says there were 'fireworks' between them twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd74b160873f1d37b/69887d3acf40a87ecac41ea3/gettyimages-509513240.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Listen to Ryan Reynolds Talk About His 'First Date' With Wife Blake Lively > Sponsored content. 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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds at Cipriani Wall Street on February 10, 2016 in New York City. Bennett Raglin—Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 11, 2016 4:55 PM UTC In a recent [interview](https://soundcloud.com/ewradio/hear-about-ryan-reynolds-blake-livelys-first-date) with Entertainment Weekly Radio, _Deadpool_ star Ryan Reynolds reflected on making the film _The Green Lantern_ back in 2011\. It was a film that, by many accounts, [didn’t really work out](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/770677993/). But for Reynolds, it holds a great deal of sentimental value, because it’s where he met his wife, Blake Lively. At first, the two actors were just “buddies,” Reynolds says. But then he explains the moment when he knew they were going to be more than that: on a double date. With other people. “That was like the most awkward date for the respective parties because we were just like fireworks coming across \[the table\],” Reynolds said. Listen to the clip here: During the interview, Reynolds also [talked about](https://soundcloud.com/ewradio/what-has-ryan-reynolds-learned-from-being-a-father) his daughter, James. “I truly worship that kid. It’s terrible. She has me so far wrapped around her finger it’s dumb,” he said. “She says ‘dada’ and I will walk through a cement wall to get to her.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4217505/ryan-reynolds-blake-lively-first-date/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4217505/ryan-reynolds-blake-lively-first-date/"},"headline":"Listen to Ryan Reynolds Talk About His 'First Date' With Wife Blake Lively","datePublished":"2016-02-11T16:55:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:57.917Z","description":"He says there were 'fireworks' between them","url":"https://time.com/4217505/ryan-reynolds-blake-lively-first-date/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd74b160873f1d37b/69887d3acf40a87ecac41ea3/gettyimages-509513240.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd74b160873f1d37b/69887d3acf40a87ecac41ea3/gettyimages-509513240.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"GettyImages-509513240","caption":"<> at Cipriani Wall Street on February 10, 2016 in New York City.","creditText":"Bennett Raglin—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4217505/ryan-reynolds-blake-lively-first-date/","name":"Listen to Ryan Reynolds Talk About His 'First Date' With Wife Blake Lively"}}]}] ```