Most of Ryan Reynolds’ public shout-outs to his wife Blake Lively have a trolling nature to them, especially on social media. But last night, Reynolds gave a rare, sincere tribute to Lively in his WSJ Magazine Innovator Award speech, where he touched on her impact on him.

“I want to thank my wife, Blake,” he said, via E!. “She is a genius, she is a renaissance woman and she pushes me in ways that I never imagined I’d be pushed.” E! noted that he joked that the second half of his speech sounded “like a police report,” so yes, the signature Reynolds snark was there, too. It just made a briefer appearance.

Reynolds will share more adoring words to Lively from time to time, sometimes with a line of dark humor in them, and sometimes without. On Mother’s Day, he wrote to Lively, the mother of his three daughters James, Inez, and Betty, “It can’t be said enough… you’re the heart and soul of every moment this family shares. I’m grateful for the light and for the kindness you smuggle into each and every second of our lives. I see you in the eyes of our children… Every laugh. Every blink and every thoughtful moment of vulnerability. The tender grit it takes to be a mother in 2021 is an act of pure strength and heroism. Never could I have predicted anonymous airport bathroom sex would lead to this. Or how you’d hire Dog The Bounty Hunter to find me. Either way, I’m lucky to reflect a little of the sunlight you shine on all of us. Happy Mother’s Day, my love.”

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And of course, Reynolds went viral in 2017 when he talked to Humans of NY at the Met Gala about how much Lively changed him. He said, “She always responds with empathy. She meets anger with empathy. She meets hate with empathy. She’ll take the time to imagine what happened to a person when they were five or six years old. And she’s made me a more empathetic person. I had a very fractured relationship with my father. Before he died, she made me remember things I didn’t want to remember. She made me remember the good times.”

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