Ryan Reynolds says he and his wife, Blake Lively, still feel sorry for the place in South Carolina where they held the secret wedding ceremony. To everyone’s memory, the place was a former plantation.
The wedding venue surfaced again during an interview with Deadpool magazine by Fast Company magazine. The magazine revealed that in 2018, Reynolds was described as a "hypocrite" on Twitter after praising the cast of African-American actors in "Black Panther", while organizing the wedding in a place where African-Americans were treated as slaves doing work forced to harvest cotton, rice, sugar and other agricultural products.
The actor told Fast Company that holding a wedding at the former Boone Hall plantation in South Carolina would be "something they will always deeply regret."
"What we saw then was a wedding site on Pinterest. "Then we saw that it was a place built on a devastating tragedy."
Such an event, he said, could "make you never speak, or push you to act."
Ryan and Blake have taken several initiatives to help certain communities. The actress also put the shocking statistics of child sexual abuse online in the spotlight recently.