The actor assures that “if it weren't for Blake, I would be left doing nothing”.
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds met in 2010 on the set of a movie and became close friends, but they didn't take the plunge until the following year.
In 2012 they got married and, today, they are a large family made up of them and their three daughters: James, 7, Inez, 5, and Betty, 2.
Perhaps it may seem that forming one of the most famous couples in Hollywood implies , on some occasions, distancing yourself a little from the family and not being able to attend to your paternity tasks as you would like.
But this is not the case for Blake and Ryan, since spending time with the family is one of his priorities as a father. And so the actor has told in an interview with David Letterman in 'My Next Guest Needs No Introduction', where he admitted that he would not be the father he is today if it were not for his wife. “Blake, in all honesty, really taught me how to do all of this,” Reynolds confessed.
“Blake directs it,” Ryan added. “If it wasn't for her, I would be left doing nothing. She has higher standards.” It was then that the presenter asked him if he would feel anxious if Blake left him and the girls alone for a few days, for example to visit his family.
“First of all, he would never let her go visit her family,” the actor jokingly replied, adding, “No, yes, that's illegal. That is a kidnapping."
Returning to seriousness and on the subject of being left alone as "dad to girls" for an extended period of time, Ryan said he would find it "pretty exciting at first," but quickly added that "the division of labor is very important when you are raising three girls.”
Although this is not the first time that Ryan has spoken about fatherhood, since in October 2021 he took a short break from acting to focus on his daughters.
“We all want to be together during this time. Our daughters are still quite young, and I don't want to miss out on it," she told 'People,' and later told 'Access Hollywood': "My daughters are growing up faster than time and space would have suggested, so I want to to be there".
In addition, he said that they are always united: “We do not separate. For example, I shoot movies and my wife does too and we travel everywhere, and we just all go together. I think the best part is that we don't spend much time apart. I can spend a lot of time with my daughters.”
