like a normal f****** person."

“It happened on a train,” Bateman mused.

Reynolds joked, “You know, I was just begging her to sleep with me.”

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively walking hand-in-hand

The podcast hosts laughed, and Reynolds added, “No, and we did.”

Reynolds also has a distinct dance-related memory of when he knew Lively was the one.

Reynolds started with a quip, as per usual: “Probably after the sex.”

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively posing at the Met Gala

And then I walked her home.

That was the biggest thing to me.

I’d never known anything like the friendship that I had with him.

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively hugging

I could like him as much as I loved him."

Speaking withEntertainment Tonightin 2021, Reynolds echoed Lively’s sentiments about friendship.

“Falling in love is great,” he said, “but do you like each other?

… We’ve always liked each other.

We learn from each other.

So yeah, I’m lucky to have a buddy in that.”