Ryan Reynolds Thanks & Praises 'Deadpool' Dance Double Nick Pauley For 'Bye Bye Bye' Dance

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Ryan Reynolds is confirming he wasn’t the one dancing to *NSYNC‘s “Bye Bye Bye” in the new Deadpool & Wolverine!

The 47-year-old star and co-writer of the film revealed who was really behind the mask in the opening sequence, showing off their dance moves, and he praised the dancer – Nick Pauley – from the movie. Keep reading to find out more… “Confession for you… a lot of people don’t know I can sing and move well, but that is actually the first lie I’ll tell today,” he said at a recent press conference, via With Ashley & Co. “A guy named Nick Pauley is the guy that choreographed, and I mean he’s doing a lot of the moves that have been established previously by *NSYNC.” “If it looks like the person who’s dancing doesn’t have arthritis, that’s him,” Ryan continued. “There’s the moments where, you know, there’s a bit of a pop and lock, except the pop, the pop really pops, like it cracks.

And the lock will not unlock. So yeah, I would do anything I could to free myself up. But yeah, I will hang on Nick Pauley‘s talent.

I will hang my hat on his talent there and thank him for his contribution and services.” Since the movie’s release, Nick has taken to social media to reveal he was the one dancing in the movie, and even shared his audition video for the part, and how he had to learn the dance very fast to send it in to the Deadpool team. “It’s true!