Ryan Reynolds Says Seeing So Many Deadpool & Wolverine Halloween Costumes Is 'Like Having a Dream Come True'

Ryan Reynolds is impressed to see Deadpool & Wolverine's popularity carry over into Halloween.

On the morning of Friday, Nov. 1, Reynolds, 48, shared a post to his Instagram Stories that featured a photo of him and costar Hugh Jackman in their July blockbuster superhero movie, writing he "can't believe the amount of Deadpool & Wolvie costumes running around last night."

"You'll never know what that's like if you're me. I feel like I'm five years old, staring out the window at some impossible future," Reynolds wrote in his post. "People made mini movies and wore some of the best suits I've ever seen. Little kids to kick-ass geezer-pools. Quoting lines, laughing and performing stunts."

Reynolds famously brought the R-rated, meta Marvel Comics character to the big screen for the first time with Jackman, 56, in 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and later re-adapted the character for the Deadpool solo films. The most recent movie marked the character's full introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and proved commercially and critically successful.

"I'm not cool or aloof about stuff like this - No part of me takes it for granted or feels entitled to it," Reynolds wrote of the movie's success and his character's rise to pop culture stardom. "It's like having a dream come true - but a dream you didn't know you were dreaming of."

Reynolds has always displayed a high level of enthusiasm for the character. As his wife Blake Lively recalled in a July 26 Instagram, Reynolds was pitching Deadpool to her and their Green Lantern costar Taika Waititi as far back as 2010, when they costarred in and met on the set of the Warner Bros. superhero film. 

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"It was a 'meta' superhero," Lively, 37, wrote at that time. "Most of us didn’t know what exactly meta meant back then. Except Taika bc he’s always been more brilliant than the rest of us mortals. We understood in theory, but how it would come together for an audience was murky, for everyone but [Reynolds]."

Reynolds, who shares four children with Lively, posted just some of the Deadpool costumes he saw on social media to his Instagram Stories on Halloween night, including Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos as Deadpool posing with Joey Fatone as Jackman's Wolverine.

If Lively and Reynolds stepped out in costume on Halloween night, the pair have not yet shared photos. They did submit their ballots for the upcoming U.S. presidential election on Oct. 31, though, with Lively writing on Instagram that "getting an “I Voted” sticker was more exciting than candy."