Hugh Jackman begs the Academy not to nominate frenemy Ryan Reynolds for Oscar - Daily Mail

Hugh Jackman's fake feud with his person Ryan Reynolds got kicked up a notch connected Wednesday aft helium campaigned to forestall his pal from getting an Oscar.

The 54-year-old Logan prima shared a video to societal media urging the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to not nominate the 46-year-old Deadpool star successful the Best Original Song category.

Ryan inched person to a imaginable Oscar information erstwhile helium was included successful the Oscars shortlist for the opus category, which was announced successful December.

The histrion was nominated for the opus Good Afternoon, which is featured successful his philharmonic Christmas drama Spirited, which costars Will Ferrell.

Hugh sounded somber and reserved astatine the commencement of his video, arsenic if helium was preparing to present a dose of atrocious news.

'Hey everybody, it’s 2023 and I really, truly wanted to nonstop retired a affirmative connection astatine the opening of the twelvemonth but caller events person made that impossible. Don’t get maine wrong, I emotion Spirited, it’s a large movie, we had a blast, the full household watched it,' helium began. 'I emotion Will [Ferrell], I emotion Octavia [Spencer], evidently I did The Greatest Showman with [songwriters] Benj [Pasek] and Justin [Paul], they’re unthinkable and I emotion their music.'

'And Good Afternoon, the song, I laughed the full mode through,' helium continued. 'It’s perfectly brilliant. However, I conscionable heard the Academy person shortlisted Good Afternoon successful the Best Song category.

'Ryan Reynolds getting a information successful the Best Song Category would marque the adjacent twelvemonth of my beingness insufferable,' helium explained. 'I person to walk a twelvemonth with him shooting Wolverine and Deadpool. Trust me. It would beryllium impossible. It would beryllium a problem. 

'Just to recap: emotion Spirited, emotion Will, emotion Octavia, emotion the song… but please, please, from the bottommost of my heart, bash not nominate Ryan Reynolds in this way, please,' helium pleaded successful a comic deadpan.

Of course, Ryan saw the video and was speedy to stock a snappy reply.

'Disagree,' helium wrote. 'I deliberation the deepfakes that sung and danced for Will and I would emotion to execute astatine the Oscars.'

Ryan's movie is an updated modern-day adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Tale, successful which Will stars arsenic Ebenezer Scrooge, who has go the Ghost of Christmas Present, portion Ryan plays his imaginable successor to the role.

The movie received modestly affirmative reviews and boasts a 63 percent caller standing from the astir high-profile critics surveyed by Rotten Tomatoes. 

Hugh and Ryan person collaborated respective times, and Ryan played an aboriginal mentation of his Marvel quality Deadpool successful Hugh's spinoff X-Men Origins: Wolverine, though it was substantially antithetic from the wisecracking quality helium would debut successful the Deadpool solo films.

After gathering connected the movie shoot, the 2 became accelerated friends. They regularly marque cameo appearances successful each other's films, but they besides launched a fake feud which continues to this day.

Last month, Hugh posted a humorous video successful which helium joked that Ryan had breached into his Manhattan penthouse aft helium enactment up a cardboard cutout of the comic histrion from Spirited.

'How did helium get successful here? What the hell?! This is my home,' helium joked, earlier layering successful immoderate constabulary sirens into his video.