Channing Tatums love for Ryan Reynolds goes deep.
On Monday, the 21 Jump Street star posted a pair of Instagram photos that showed him and the Deadpool actor attending San Diego Comic-Con back in 2015 and almost a whole decade later at this weekends event.
The now-and-then snapshots were teamed with a heartfelt caption in which Tatum thanked his friend for supporting him through thick and thin.
Writing about how he witnessed the first preview of the first Deadpool movie at Comic-Con nearly 10 years ago, the Magic Mike star remembered, I ran back stage right after and found him and I think I just hugged him and was like holy shit you did it man.
Its perfect, he said of the full-circle moment. I didnt know him really at all back then. But since then I can say that there is almost no one that has had my back in this industry more than Ryan.
Tatum, who appears in the new Deadpool & Wolverine as the X-Men character Gambit, then thanked Reynolds for helping him make his superhero dreams a reality.
I thought I had lost Gambit forever, he said, referring to how he was first cast as the Cajun mutant in a standalone Gambit film only for the project to be shelved by Disney in 2019.