Ryan Reynolds apologises for plantation wedding with Blake Lively

Ryan Reynolds has apologised for his 2012 wedding with Blake Lively at Boone Hall, a former slave plantation, in South Carolina.

Ryan Reynolds apologised for his 2012 wedding with Blake Lively at Boone Hall, a former slave plantation, in South Carolina.

“It’s something we’ll always be deeply and unreservedly sorry for,” Reynolds, 43, told Fast Company in a recent interview. “It’s impossible to reconcile.”

The Deadpool actor then explained his and Lively’s decision to have their wedding there.

“What we saw at the time was a wedding venue on Pinterest. What we saw after was a place built upon devastating tragedy,” Reynolds admitted.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds in 2017. Picture: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images For Entertainment Weekly

The Green Lantern star also revealed that the couple “got married again” at home years after their wedding. “Shame works in weird ways,” he said.

“A giant f***ing mistake like that can either cause you to shut down or it can reframe things and move you into action. It doesn’t mean you won’t f**k up again. But repatterning and challenging lifelong social conditioning is a job that doesn’t end,” Reynolds concluded.

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement regaining momentum, Reynolds and Lively, 32, donated $US1 million to the NAACP Legal Defence and Educational Fund which fights for racial justice.

The father-of-three also launched The Group Effort Initiative, a program to bring more “Black, Indigenous, people of colour or people from marginalised and excluded communities” into the film industry.

In May, the couple released a statement on social media and pledged to stay informed about racial injustices.

“We’re ashamed that in the past we’ve allowed ourselves to be uninformed about how deeply rooted systemic racism is,” they wrote.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds attend the premiere of Pokemon Detective Pikachu. Picture: Angela Weiss/AFP

The couple continued: “We want to educate ourselves about other people’s experiences and talk to our kids about everything, all of it … especially our own complicity. We talk about our bias, blindness and our own mistakes. We look back and see so many mistakes which have led us to deeply examine who we are and who we want to become. They’ve led us to huge avenues of education.

“It’s the least we can do to honour not just George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and Eric Garner, but all the Black men and women who have been killed when a camera wasn’t rolling,” Reynolds and Lively declared.

This article originally appeared on Fox News and was reproduced with permission