With business closing, people losing work and whole cities going into lockdown as the Coronavirus continues to spread throughout the world, it’s getting a spooky out there. Is there no one who will provide some levity?
Enter Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool himself. Earlier this week, the actor combined charitable giving with a deep and abiding loathing for fellow Marvel mainstay Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), continuing their years-long feud:
Okay, so I was kidding about the deep and abiding loathing part, but that is a funny rib. “Take care of your bodies and hearts. Leave room for joy. Call someone who’s isolated and might need connection. (Hugh Jackman’s # is 1-555-😢-HUGH).” Nice touch giving a number that doesn’t actually exist so the person who doesn’t actually have that number isn’t bothered.
And of course, kudos on donating $1 million to Feeding America and Food Banks Canada, both organizations that can help people through this crisis. Reynolds’ wife Blake Lively also posted a message, one that was slightly more serious than her husband’s:
So I was lying about Reynolds and Jackman loathing each other, but they do have a long history of playful back and forth. For example, here’s Jackman blaming Reynolds for a cut he received on his hand:
The ball’s in Jackman’s court now. Wanna up that donation? At the least, it’ll give us something to titter at while we’re all stuck inside.
And Reynolds isn’t the only celebrity using the Coronavirus crisis to spread a positive message. Appearing on his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s show, Red Table Talk, Will Smith apologized for spreading misinformation about viruses in his 2008 film I Am Legend, where he played the sole survivor of a worldwide plague.
And then he talked about how viruses actually spread, based on information he picked up when visiting the the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) years ago. Anything that gets the word out is fine by me.
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