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How Did Blake Lively And Ryan Reynolds Meet? They Stayed Friends After 'Green Lantern'

I think we all kinda/sorta remember the 2010 movie Green Lantern, yes? The movie that was meant to turn Ryan Reynolds into a franchise superhero and a bona fide movie star rather than just a hunk de jour. Well, obviously that didn't happen. The movie has become synonymous with the word flop, panned by critics and reviled by fan boys the world over. The one lasting legacy of the movie is that we got to see Reynolds and co-star Blake Lively make out on the big screen, I guess. But is that how Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively met and became a couple? It turns out, the path to true love was a little more complicated for this blindingly beautiful dynamic duo.

While the couple technically met during filming of the Green Lantern, they were both in relationships at the time. Reynolds was married to the ultra-luminous Scarlett Johanssen, while Lively was dating her longtime Gossip Girl co-star, the professionally broody Penn Badgley (I have a theory that if all four of these beautiful people were in the same room, you couldn't look directly at them. Sort of like a solar eclipse). Flash forward a year, and both couples have broken up. Lively and Reynolds, who remained friends, were on a double date with another couple... and sparks started to fly between them. Which must have been super awko taco for the other couple, right?