When Ryan Reynolds accepts his Creative Arts Emmy Award, he dons the Deadpool mask. With a funny victory speech, the Deadpool actor shocked audiences by introducing himself as “The Merc With a Mouth.” The 2024 Creative Arts Emmy Awards and the Golden Globes took place over the weekend, reigniting Hollywood’s awards season. AFC Wrexham, a football team owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, was featured in the sports documentary Welcome to Wrexham, which took home a major Creative Arts Emmy. In keeping with his ongoing joke in which Deadpool refers to Reynolds as a different person and not the actor who plays him, Deadpool welcomed the speech and jokedly referred to Reynolds as “Mr. Lively,” a reference to the actor’s wife Blake Lively.
“Mr. Lively sent me on his behalf to accept this broken Emmy because he couldn’t be here,” said Deadpool. We adore you, Wrexham, beyond all else. I appreciate you sharing your tale with Rob and the other person. I also want to thank the Academy for this honour and for not requiring us to go to the actual celebrities’ televised show. Finally, since Hugh and Ryan’s faces required so much work, perhaps we might receive a symbolic VFX nomination next year, even though the Oscar is on notice.” The main plot of Welcome to Wrexham is on Reynolds and McElhenney’s endeavour to revitalise the third-oldest professional football team globally. The series covers their journey and the team’s performance during their ownership, despite their lack of prior experience managing a sports team. With five Emmy Awards, the documentary highlighted the couple’s goals to inspire the team and have a good influence on the Wrexham community.
