Paul Mullin told Ryan Reynolds 'you f****** up more than me' in Wrexham moment
Wrexham striker Paul Mullin couldn't resist poking fun at the club's Hollywood co-owner Ryan Reynolds after the pair filmed an advert together at the Racecourse Ground.
Mullin, 29, has quickly become a star of the 'Welcome to Wrexham' documentary series since signing for the then-National League club in the summer of 2021. The centre-forward embraced the cameras charting their seasons in the fifth tier and struck up a relationship with Reynolds and the club's other co-owner, Rob McElhenney.
That bond became physically closer than ever when going eyeball-to-eyeball with Reynolds in the Racecourse Ground changing rooms. Mullin has now shed further light on the scene.
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“Ryan wanted to do an advert for the show and use a couple of the lads," he wrote in his autobiography, 'My Wrexham Story'. "The idea was he’d burst into a full changing-room and deliver a monologue about how cold it was outside and how we needed to get out of this league that plays in the winter, in so doing, showing his own (feigned) ignorance – of course every league plays through the winter.
"My role in this little drama is to mutter, ‘Idiot!’ Nose-to-nose, he then launches into me. ‘Mullin! I will shove a red card so far up your a** people will think it’s your tongue!’
"It was mad sitting there and seeing him acting in front of us, to see, close up, just how good he is at what he does. My problem was that, compared to him, I could only see me making a fool of myself.
Mullin called out Reynolds' acting after filming the advert (Getty Images)"Sounds mad, but I do worry, generally, about making a show of myself. People often ask how many times I laughed when Ryan shoved his face into mine.
"Subconsciously, that wish not to mess up must have helped to stop me from cracking up: we did a load of takes, but, genuinely, it was only a couple of times. Otherwise, we could have been there all day.
"Afterwards, I couldn’t resist pointing out to Ryan, ‘Mate, you f***** up more than me!’ Although to be fair, he had several dozen words to remember, and I only had one.
"What Ryan and his team then did with those bits of film was unbelievable. Even now, it’s one of the parts of the show that people best remember – although, again, by the time that episode came out, sitting in the changing-room with Ryan Reynolds shouting in my face was so long ago it felt almost surreal.
"In fact, by then, being around one of the most famous Hollywood actors of modern times was an everyday normality. Only when everyone started messaging me did I remember that, actually, being bawled out by Ryan Reynolds was a pretty weird thing to have happen in your life.”
As the Season Two finale showed, Wrexham did 'get out of that league' and now sit second in League Two.
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