Free Guy: Blake Lively is very excited about Ryan Reynolds’ new co-star Jodie Comer

Deadpool star said new action comedy is ‘all time favourite film [he’s] ever done’

Blake Lively is very excited about Ryan Reynolds' latest co-star.

Reynolds’ new film Free Guy is on the cover of the new issue of Total Film and, for the shoot, he posed alongside his co-star, Killing Eve actor Jodie Comer.

Free Guy is Comer’s first high-profile film role after hitting the big time playing Villanelle in the award-winning television series, which recently returned for a third season.

After Reynolds shared an image of the cover on his Instagram page, calling it his “all time favourite film [he’s] ever done", his wife Lively – clearly a fan of Killing Eve – was quick to respond.

“Wait... You did a movie with VILLANELLE?!?!? I’m. Not. Ok.” she wrote with several heart eye emojis.

Lively wasn’t the only one to respond. Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi, who also stars in the film, jokily wrote: “What is this bulls**t.”

Samuel L Jackson also commented, writing: “Izzat another PH film?!?!” – seemingly in reference to the pair’s Hitman’s Bodyguard director Patrick Hughes (it’s not – Free Guy is directed by Stranger Things producer Shawn Levy, which may have something to do with the fact that Joe Keery, who plays Steve Harrington in the Netflix show, was also tapped to appear).

Free Guy follows a man who, after coming into possession of a special pair of sunglasses, is able to see that his home of Free City is actually an open-world video game, full of tasks, missions and secret passageways.

The film was originally scheduled arrive in cinemas on 3 July, but it will now be released on 11 December instead because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The new issue of Total Film is available from Friday (1 May).