The couple met on the set of their 2011 flick Green Lantern. At the time, Reynolds was still married to his ex-wife Scarlett Johansson, 37, while Lively was dating her Gossip Girl love interest, Penn Badgley, 35.
A firm foundation of friendship was formed in the first “year and a half” while they were just “buddies”. “That was the biggest thing to me,” Lively, 34, told Marie Claire magazine. “I had never known anything like the friendship that I had with him. I could like him as much as I loved him,” she explained.
When they did get together, things moved quickly. It was just a week after their first date that Reynolds suggested buying a house together. “[It was] sort of like out of a fairytale,” he said.
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