Ryan Reynolds Avoids The “Thor Crying” Question For Once
by Erik Amaya
If you’ve been following the odd Deadpool saga across the summer conventions, you’ll know actor Ryan Reynolds has one question he wants answered: why is Thor (Chris Hemsworth) crying?
The interrogative was first posed in Deadpool and Wolverine during Wade Wilson’s visit to the Time Variance Authority. There, he glimpses a scene similar to Tony Stark’s (Robert Downey Jr.) demise in Avengers: Endgame with Deadpool in Iron Man’s spot and Thor hovering over him. The god of thunder is in tears and Wade wants to know more. Of course, no one at the TVA will provide him with the context of what he witnessed.
The question returned at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. During Marvel’s Hall H panel, Reynolds, in a denim Deadpool outfit, posed the question directly to Paul Rudd, who seems even less likely to know the truth. His response: “I think he’s a Wrexham fan” in reference to the British football team featured in Reynolds’ docuseries Welcome to Wrexham (he also co-own the team). Deadpool’s next appearance at D23 saw Hugh Jackman taking point, but more in the hopes of securing a place for both Wolverine and Deadpool in December’s Avengers: Doomsday.
But it seems Reynolds never asked the original Thor director about it.
During a red carpet interview promoting Mayday, Kenneth Brannagh, who stars alongside Reynolds in the Cold War action-comedy, told Variety the question never came up because “he worries about offending me.”
Kenneth Branagh says Ryan Reynolds never brought up the ongoing “Why is Thor crying?” gag while filming together on “Mayday”:
“He worries about offending me, that’s what it is. That was my baby, you know! Way back before you came in.” (Branagh directed the first “Thor” movie in… pic.twitter.com/Wm88wP7S2B
— Variety (@Variety) September 3, 2026
Is it a sign of respect for Brannagh’s work on the first Thor film? Or is Reynolds reasserting himself after becoming so entwined with Deadpool? As it happens, Mayday is not a Brannagh film. It was instead devised and made by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, the pair who gave us such films as Game Night and the underappreciated Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Perhaps the environment never gave the two actors a chance to discuss the Thor crying meme and Deadpool’s insistence on knowing the answer.
If nothing else, it is refreshing to hear Reynolds reigning in some of his antics and establishing a different sort of working relationship with Brannagh. As it happens, Mayday is said to be a fun film with the two leads creating a likable rapport. We won’t get a chance to watch it until the weekend, though, when it will be available on AppleTV.
