‘I’m mostly drinking’: Ryan Reynolds jokes he’s been hitting the bottle, making ’tissue paper dresses’ with his three daughters and getting Blake Lively to cut his hair during isolation
Ryan Reynolds has joked he has been ‘mostly drinking’ as he self-isolates at home with his wife Blake Lively and their children amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The actor, 43, and his wife, 32, – who have daughters James, five, Inez, three, and a seven-month-old whose name they haven’t revealed, want their extended time at home to be an ‘educational experience’ for their kids but Ryan admitted he’s found other distractions.
Speaking to Stephen Colbert via video link on The Late Show, he said: ‘We’re doing a lot of home-schooling. We’re lucky enough to have a little, tiny garden, so we’re learning a little bit about gardening.
‘We’re trying to make this an educational experience. But I’m mostly drinking.’
Staying home: Ryan Reynolds, 43, has joked he has been ‘mostly drinking’ as he self-isolates at home with his wife Blake Lively, 32, and their three children amid the coronavirus pandemic
The Aviation Gin owner insisted he is happy to be ‘doing girl’s stuff’ in his all-female household until life returns to normal.
He laughed: ‘I do not miss masculine company at all. Really, most men tend to just be the architects of someone’s demise. So it’s fine. I like just being here with the girls. I like doing the girls’ stuff.
‘Like, I try not to push sort of gender normative ideas on my kids as they’re born, but each one as soon as they came out of the chute, they wanted to make dresses, they wanted to dress in hot pink all day.
‘That’s what I’ve been doing. This morning we made dresses out of tissue paper, which was fun for them.
Family: Ryan and Blake have daughters James, five, Inez, three, and a seven-month-old whose name they haven’t revealed (pictured in May 2019)
‘This is what we’re doing! We’re developing the skills that will take us into the new world.’
Ryan told how his wife Blake will be helping him to keep up with his personal grooming during self-isolation by giving him a haircut.
He said: ‘Tomorrow, Blake is going to give me a haircut. She did this once before. It took two and a half hours.
‘And then at the end it looked like she had done the whole thing using only a lighter or, like those gloves that are made of sand paper.
‘It would have been a little faster if she had just rubbed my head until the hair disappeared. But tomorrow I’m getting a haircut, and I’m very excited.’
Interview: Ryan told Stephen Colbert: ‘We’re lucky enough to have a little, tiny garden, so we’re learning a little bit about gardening. We’re trying to make this an educational experience’
The couple have donated $1million (£805,000) to food banks in America and Canada, as well as $400,000 (£322,000) to hospitals in New York City, and the actor has also pledged to donate a percentage of sales of his gin to help out-of-work bartenders.
And Ryan thinks it is important that those in a position to ‘give back’ do so.
He said: ‘I’m not really in the business of telling people what to do, necessarily, but I do think it’s incumbent upon those who can give back to do so. Particularly at a time like this.’
Together: Ryan insisted he is happy to be ‘doing girl’s stuff’ in his all-female household until life returns to normal (pictured in December 2016)