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Whatever horrible things we have said and will continue to say about Taylor Swift’s Fourth of July-Taymerica party, can we all agree that it was probably one of the biggest stories of the year? That’s good branding, folks. All Taylor had to do was invite all of her friends to Rhode Island for a long weekend, rent out a giant slide and have an “I Heart T.S.” t-shirt made, and BOOM, we’re still talking about the Taymerica party five months later. Anyway, one of the funnier stories to come out of the Taymerica party was that Tay-Tay invited Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. The fact that Blake “Allure of Antebellum” Lively and Taylor “Innocent White Child” Swift are friends isn’t surprising, but it was surprising to see Deadpool mixing it up with all of those shiny, happy people.

Ryan’s discomfort was written all over his face too, which everyone could see in one Instagram (above). While it was notable because of TIDDLES, it was also notable because Ryan’s face is basically the face every Hiddlestoner made when they saw the “I Heart T.S.” t-shirt. It’s a face of sadness, of grief, of discomfort, of suppressed laughter. So now, all of these months later, what does Ryan have to say about the face he was making in that photo?

Ryan Reynolds has had a helluva 2016, and that’s why EW named him our Entertainer of the Year. He starred in one of the year’s biggest hits, Deadpool. He welcomed a second daughter with wife Blake Lively (The Shallows). And he spent our nation’s birthday at the home of none other than Taylor Swift. The latter event became the stuff of internet gold when a group shot, including Reynolds, Lively, Swift, and then boyfriend Tom Hiddleston, hit social media. While the other subjects seem quite happy, Reynolds’ sad looking face became meme fodder.

So when we sat down with Reynolds to talk about his great year for this week’s EW, we had to ask: Were you actually upset? “No that’s a problem I’ve had all my life,” admits the actor. “If I’m not aware a photo is being taken, my natural resting face is one of a man dying. I had no idea somebody was taking a photo. Therefore I was resting comfortably in my persona of a man whose soul is visibly exiting this earth.”

[From EW]

First of all, Ryan Reynolds is made of lies!! He knew he was being photographed. No one sits like that on a porch naturally. Of course they were all posed!!! Jesus. Now, just because he agreed to the pose and he agreed to be photographed, that doesn’t mean his face was in full compliance. Sometimes I think I’m making a vaguely pleasant “I’m listening” face and someone will ask me why I look like I’m about to kill someone. Ryan’s face betrayed him, is what I’m saying. He thought he was playing along and his face was like “I can’t believe you’re doing this, this whole thing is so twee and idiotic.”

Could Ryan Reynolds look more bored if he tried…?! pic.twitter.com/FFYTYVZDeB

— BBC Radio1 Breakfast (@R1Breakfast) July 6, 2016

“I now know what to call the Deadpool sequel: Deadpool: DeadInside.”
– Ryan Reynolds’ internal monologue pic.twitter.com/DaNBlFlz3q

— A-A-Ron Swanson (@coucouaaron) July 6, 2016

Photos courtesy of Instagram, WENN. Cover courtesy of EW.