Ryan Reynolds teases the possibility of an It’s Always Sunny cameo
"Mac needs a boyfriend," Reynolds' Welcome To Wrexham co-star Rob McElhenney pointed out when the question was raised
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Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney—currently most of the way through the first season of their new FX TV show, Welcome To Wrexham—have now begun hinting that Reynolds might someday hang out with those other Reynoldses that McElhenney spends his time with: The family of degenerates who make up a decent chunk of the cast of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
This is per an interview the duo gave to BuzzFeed Celeb, in an installment of the site’s regular, Petco-funded “The Puppy Interview” bit. (The gist of it is: What if you interviewed celebrities while a bunch of very cute puppies were crawling all over them?) Amid the various questions the pair were faced with: “Ryan, would you ever guest on It’s Always Sunny?”
To which the answer was—after a brief digression in which Reynolds feigned offense at never having been asked in the first place—an enthusiastic “Hell yes,” he would. As to what part Reynolds would play, a variety of options end up being presented. Reynolds floated a mere cameo as a drunk at Paddy’s Pub, presumably wasting his days away wrecked on Aviator Gin. McElhenney, meanwhile, went more ambitious, noting that his character Mac, who’s been an out gay man for a few seasons now, “Needs a boyfriend.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Reynolds and McElhenney express their honest opinions about that other soccer-themed streaming show—“Fuck Ted Lasso,” per McElhenney—and Reynolds admits to the very obvious truth that Danny DeVito would have been one hell of a Detective Pikachu. And, of course, if none of that gossip or speculation appeals to you, there’s always the very adorable spectacle of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney playing with a free-floating swarm of puppies, making about a thousand different variations on “D’aww, isn’t he cute?”
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He plays himself. The gang is secretly obsessed with “Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place”. They are not aware of his career since then, and they honestly thought he was dead.
LOL, this would actually be good.
That would suck. Ryan Reynolds sucks.
Hard agree. First, he wants to remake Clue, a perfect movie that has no business being remade. Now he wants to f up Always Sunny. What’s he going to ruin next?
He should just be in the background of a shot like Conan on How I Met Your Mother.
I mean, I wouldn’t read a lot into the “Fuck Ted Lasso” thing as being their real take, given in one of the episodes that just dropped today, Sudeikis was in their box at Wembley with them (not to mention they’ve had friendly exchanges between the Wrexham and Lasso Twitter accounts; oh, and that whole part where Rob’s other show happens to share a streaming platform with Lasso).
And Jason Sudeikis plays a character on “Always Sunny” as well.
Wait, does he? I’ve watched every episode of Sunny and, for the life of me, I am blanking on who he has played.
He’s Schmitty, who was briefly in The Gang in Charlie’s place.
(5) It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – Charlie gets blocked by Schmitty. – YouTube
Also, McElhenney has a show on AppleTV so I don’t think he’s really going to trash another show on that service.