Ryan Reynolds says choosing Boone Hall, a former plantation in South Carolina, for his wedding to Blake Lively was a โgiantโ mistake.
The Deadpool actor reflected on the coupleโs regret over their decision to hold their 2012 wedding at a South Carolina plantation in a new interview with Fast Company.
โItโs something weโll always be deeply and unreservedly sorry for,โ he said. โItโs impossible to reconcile.
โWhat we saw at the time was a wedding venue on Pinterest. What we saw after was a place built upon devastating tragedy.โ

In May of last year, Pinterest announced it had banned plantation-style wedding content on the platform.
โWeddings should be a symbol of love and unity,โ a spokesperson for Pinterest told The Independent at the time. โPlantations represent none of those things.โ
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According to Reynolds, who revealed he and Lively got married again at their home years later, the shame of their first wedding encouraged them to become better people.
Explaining that โshame works in weird ways,โ the father-of-three said: โA giant fucking mistake like that can either cause you to shut down or it can reframe things and move you into action.

โIt doesnโt mean you wonโt fuck up again. But re-patterning and challenging lifelong social conditioning is a job that doesnโt end.โ
The actorโs admission comes after he and Lively acknowledged on their social media accounts in May their previous ignorance in regards to systemic racism following global protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd.
In the statements, the couple said they are dedicated to raising their three daughters, James, Inez, and Betty, differently.
โWeโve never had to worry about preparing our kids for different rules of law or what might happen if weโre pulled over in the car. We donโt know what itโs like to experience that life day in and day out. We canโt imagine feeling that kind of fear and anger. Weโre ashamed that in the past, weโve allowed ourselves to be uninformed about how deeply rooted systemic racism is,โ the couple wrote in part. โWeโre committed to raising our kids so they never grow up feeding this insane pattern and so theyโll do their best to never inflict pain on another being consciously or unconsciously.โ