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<\/noscript> <\/div>\nPleading: Hugh Jackman, 54, continued his fake feud with friend Ryan Reynolds on Wednesday when he urged the Academy not to nominate Ryan, 46, for Best Original Song<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Hugh sounded somber and reserved at the start of his video, as if he was preparing to deliver a dose of bad news.<\/p>\n
‘Hey everybody, it’s 2023 and I really, really wanted to send out a positive message at the beginning of the year but recent events have made that impossible. Don’t get me wrong, I love Spirited, it’s a great movie, we had a blast, the entire family watched it,’ he began. ‘I love Will [Ferrell]I love Octavia [Spencer]obviously I did The Greatest Showman with [songwriters] benj [Pasek] and Justin [Paul]they’re incredible and I love their music.’<\/p>\n
‘And Good Afternoon, the song, I laughed the entire way through,’ he continued. ‘It’s absolutely brilliant. However, I just heard the Academy have shortlisted Good Afternoon in the Best Song category.<\/p>\n
‘Ryan Reynolds getting a nomination in the Best Song Category would make the next year of my life insufferable,’ he explained. ‘I have to spend a year with him shooting Wolverine and Deadpool. Trust me. It would be impossible. It would be a problem. <\/p>\n
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<\/noscript> <\/div>\nGetting closer: Ryan was shortlisted for Best Original Song for his Christmas comedy Spirited (pictured), which costars Will Ferrell. The list will be whittled down with the eventual nominees<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/noscript> <\/div>\nLooking out for himself: ‘Ryan Reynolds getting a nomination in the Best Song Category would make the next year of my life insufferable,’ Hugh joked, before praising the rest of the cast and the songwriters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/noscript> <\/div>\nSnappy: Ryan responded and joked that deepfakes had performed his songs in Spirited<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
‘Just to recap: love Spirited, love Will, love Octavia, love the song\u2026 but please, please, from the bottom of my heart, do not nominate Ryan Reynolds in this way, please,’ he pleaded in a comic deadpan.<\/p>\n
Of course, Ryan saw the video and was quick to share a snappy reply.<\/p>\n
‘Disagree,’ he wrote. ‘I think the deepfakes that sung and danced for Will and I would love to perform at the Oscars.’<\/p>\n
Ryan’s film is an updated modern-day adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Tale, in which Will stars as Ebenezer Scrooge, who has become the Ghost of Christmas Present, while Ryan plays his potential successor to the role.<\/p>\n
The film received modestly positive reviews and boasts a 63 percent fresh rating from the most high-profile critics surveyed by Rotten Tomatoes. <\/p>\n
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<\/noscript> <\/div>\nChristmas spirit: Spirited is an updated adaptation of A Christmas Tale, in which Will Ferrell stars as Ebenezer Scrooge, who has become the Ghost of Christmas Present, while Ryan plays his potential successor to the role<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/noscript> <\/div>\nDoing it for laughs: Hugh and Ryan met on the set of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and became fast friends, before launching a years-long fake feud<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Hugh and Ryan have collaborated several times, and Ryan played an early version of his Marvel character Deadpool in Hugh’s spinoff X-Men Origins: Wolverine, though it was substantially different from the wisecracking character he would debut in the Deadpool solo films.<\/p>\n
After meeting on the movie shoot, the two became fast friends. They regularly make cameo appearances in each other’s films, but they also launched a fake feud which continues to this day.<\/p>\n
Last month, Hugh posted a humorous video in which he joked that Ryan had broken into his Manhattan penthouse after he put up a cardboard cutout of the comic actor from Spirited.<\/p>\n
‘How did he get in here? What the hell?! This is my home, ‘he joked, before layering in some police sirens into his video. <\/p>\n
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<\/noscript> <\/div>\nHaving a laugh: Last month, Hugh posted a humorous video in which he joked that Ryan had broken into his Manhattan penthouse after he put up a cardboard cutout of the comic actor from Spirited <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Hugh Jackman’s fake feud with his friend Ryan Reynolds got kicked up a notch on Wednesday after he campaigned to prevent his pal from getting an Oscar. The 54-year-old Logan star shared a video to social media urging the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to not nominate the 46-year-old Deadpool star in …<\/p>\n
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