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Ryan Reynolds beautifully honors late 'Deadpool' fan who battled cancer

     Gone, but certainly not forgotten.

 

 

 

 

 

Gone, but certainly not forgotten.

On Thursday, Ryan Reynolds took to Facebook to pay tribute to his 13-year-old friend who died after battling cancer. 

Connor McGrath and the actor were brought together by the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and Reynolds traveled to Edmonton in Alberta, Canada to show the teen "a rough cut" of Deadpool.

"There were still huge sections with wires we hadn't yet painted out, jokes which weren't working (and still aren't) and green screens," the Criminal actor wrote. "Connor didn't seem to mind. And I'd never felt luckier to get to be Wade Wilson."

Throughout their friendship, Reynolds said the two exchanged "pages and pages of hilarious texts," and he compared McGrath's sense of humor to professional performers and writers.

"Connor was 13. But this kid... He was smart. He was funny," Blake Lively's husband wrote. "And not just funny 'for a kid' - or funny 'for a person battling something awful'. He was unqualified funny. He had that... thing."

And Reynolds seems to be changed after knowing such fighter. "Connor was a great friend, a great son, and a light to the people lucky enough to know him."

 

 

 

 

 

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