Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively have built an entire brand on trolling each other, but Reynolds’ latest quip feels a little less cute than he might have intended. During a Thursday event promoting his John Candy documentary, the actor admitted he told his wife “f*** you” in order to take a call from Bill Murray — and the crowd laughed.

Reynolds explained that he’d been leaving “40 messages” for Murray in hopes of securing his participation. So when his phone finally lit up with Murray’s name while he and Lively were walking into a formal event, he panicked. Lively whispered, “We have to go in.” His response? “F*** you!” as he darted to answer, per Page Six.

Sure, Reynolds framed the whole story as a self-deprecating joke, but it’s worth noting the humor only really works if you ignore the

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