T.J. Miller Calls Ryan Reynolds a ‘Good Friend Now,’ Two Years After Saying ‘I Would Not Work With Him Again’: Returning for ‘Deadpool 4’ Would Be ‘Awesome’

T.J. Miller is reversing course on Ryan Reynolds and expressing interest in returning to the “Deadpool” film franchise. Speaking on SiriusXM’s “The Bonfire” (via Entertainment Weekly), Miller revealed that he recently chatted with his former co-star. Two years ago, Miller said on the “The Adam Carolla Show” that he didn’t think Reynolds liked him and therefore the two would not work together again.

“We talked a little while ago,” Miller now said. “I think he’s just been such a good friend right now that I think it would be really, I think [returning for ‘Deadpool 4’] would be awesome.”

T.J. Miller starred as the bartender Weasel in the first two “Deadpool” movies, where he often shared the screen with Reynolds. Miller had already filmed his scenes for “Deadpool 2” when he was accused of sexual assault in 2017. The following year when the sequel opened in theaters, Miller was arrested for allegedly making a fake bomb threat on an Amtrak train. Prosecutors eventually dismissed the case. Miller was also accused in 2018 of bullying his “Silicon Valley” co-star Alice Wetterlund on set, which he denied. He was not asked to return as Weasel in “Deadpool & Wolverine.”

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Miller told Carolla in 2022 that Reynolds was “horrifically mean to me” while in character as the foul-mouthed superhero on the “Deadpool” set. “But to me. As if I’m Weasel,” Miller explained. “He was like, ‘You know what’s great about you, Weasel? You’re not the star, but you do just enough exposition that it’s funny, and then we can leave and get back to the real movie…I just kind of listened and thought it was weird, and then I got off stage because they were like, ‘Cut…?’”

“That’s exactly why he said that,” Miller continued. “Because I’m not funnier than he is at all, right? And I haven’t been in more movies than him… Would I work with him again? No. I would not work with him again. I sorta wish him well because he’s so good at ‘Deadpool,’ and I think it’s weird that he hates me.”

Miller went on to call Reynolds an “insecure dude,” adding, “He’s such a good comedian that, when you cover his face, he’s so quick, he’s so funny. I love him as a comedian, but I think after he got super, super famous from the first ‘Deadpool,’ then things kinda changed. I think he was like, ‘See? You guys see?’”

“I just think he doesn’t like me, and I thought it was weird how he expressed that,” Miller concluded, adding that he had no “ill will” against Reynolds.

It appears thing have now changed between Miller and Reynolds. And that’s not all. Not only has Miller changed his tune about Reynolds, but he’s also reversing course on Michael Bay. Miller acted for the director in 2014’s “Transformers: Age of Extinction” and later criticized the filmmaker’s on-set behavior.

“I’m friends with Michael Bay and I think during that experience with ‘Transformers 4,’ I was not sure that I would work with him again,” Miller now clarified. “Because I was like, this is very, well but it’s a $300 million film, so it’s not easy for anybody to make that happen, especially when it makes a billion dollars. But now I’m buddies with him enough that I would do almost anything that he wanted to do.”

Head over to SiriusXM’s “The Bonfire” to listen to Miller’s latest interview in its entirety.