Ryan Reynolds crashes Hugh Jackman’s Radio City concert in New York

Hugh Jackman started his Radio City Music Hall residency with a little help from a friend.

The Prestige Star took a moment between the songs Friday night to open the hall for audience questions – only for his Deadpool and Wolverine costs Ryan Reynolds to Suddenly appears with a microphone.

“Hi, Hugh, it’s Ryan,” Reynolds announced.

“You have a microphone!” Jackman said, suggesting that Reynolds had been planted in the audience.

“You can just bring one of these with!” Reynolds joked. “I’ll lend you mine in a moment.”

The Proposal The actor then joked with his friend’s From New York with love concert series at the historic venue and declared: “I was told that this would be a comedy version of Les mis like a one-man show. ”

“We all said it was a terrible idea, but he continued,” Reynolds added. “I can see that he has fooled me again.”

Reynolds then moved through the crowd to hold the microphone to audience questions. At the end of “Hugh & A” he shared a message about his fellow player.

“This was the first big movie star I ever worked with, 16 or 17 years ago,” Reynolds said, recalling their first collaboration in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine, sore PEOPLE. “I went to this movie set with this guy right here and I really didn’t know what would happen … But what I saw was almost the best one could experience at all if you work your way up in industry.”

Reynolds praised Jackman’s ability to maintain his strong personal character as his star status exploded. “I saw a movie star, a movie star with big m … I saw this gentleman right here walking around that set, and like here he knew each individual’s name, even though he found them half the time.” said the actor. “He showed some kind of courtesy and gentleness and curiosity, and he put value in every crew member we worked with.”

“I know that we were supposed to end this piece where these two security gentlemen are coming and they are trying to take the microphone from me that is like a fight and then they are taking me and I go down , and then they bind me and they put me on the Radio City Music Waste Square, and then they just light fire in it, he said. “But I just wanted to say: I love this man. I love this man. He is really the best person I know – and I have four children! He is the best. Enjoy the rest of the show. You owe me a hundred dollars. ”

Jackman replied, “I love you, Ryan Reynolds. I love you, man.”

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It wasn’t the only moment in the show with ties to Deadpool and Wolverine. Another place in the concert, Jackman reinstated “Bye bye bye” the opening dance sequence From the movie with a jumping bin to give an extra challenge. “The opening of the movie had this dance sequence – I don’t know if you saw it. It had the character of Deadpool dancing to a *nsync song,” he said. “I thought I might just try a little what might have been.”

Jackman is going to appear with 23 more From New York with love Showing over eight weekends in Radio City Music Hall. The performances offer jackman crooning tunes from a series of stage musicals and films where he has starred, including songs from Oklahoma. The music man. Les Misérablesand The biggest showman. After this weekend he performs a weekend a month from April to October.