Ryan Reynolds Had Deadpool & Wolverine Honor Rob Delaney’s Late Son After 2018

Ryan Reynolds has shared the deeply emotional reason behind his decision to honor Rob Delaney’s late son, Henry, in the movie Deadpool & Wolverine.

Henry, the two-year-old son of Catastrophe actor Rob Delaney and his wife Leah, passed away in January 2018 after battling a brain tumor for two years.

Reynolds expressed his longstanding regret for not including a tribute to Henry in Deadpool 2, which came out the same year and featured Delaney as the diabetic superhero Peter Pool.

In an Instagram post this week, Reynolds wrote: “There’s more to Rob Delaney than some realize. He’s one of the most subversively funny people I know. He’s a beautiful, acerbic, and vulnerable writer.”

The actor continued: “If you stayed through the credits of Deadpool & Wolverine, you might notice a credit saying, ‘For Henry Delaney.’ Henry was Rob’s son. And Rob lost his little boy to a brain tumor in 2018. Right as we finished Deadpool 2.”

Reynolds added: “I’ve always kicked my own a** because I didn’t place a tribute to Henry over the end credits.”

Reflecting on the bright side, he said: “Even more people are seeing Henry’s name in the credits of Deadpool & Wolverine. And at long last, father and son are sharing the same screen.”

Reynolds also praised Delaney’s 2022 memoir A Heart That Works, calling it “unfiltered, rageful, loving, sad, and hilarious.” He concluded: “I’m lucky to know Rob. And I’m lucky to have friends willing to put themselves on the line to make others feel less alone.”

Henry first showed symptoms of a brain tumor at just 11 months old when he started vomiting frequently. Doctors suspected a tumor on April 27, 2016, the day after Delaney won a BAFTA Award for Catastrophe, which he co-wrote with Sharon Horgan.

In his memoir, Delaney described the moment when he and Leah received the MRI results as “the heaviest pain in the world.”

“Grief drove a bus through the part of my brain where memories are stored,” Delaney wrote. Following the MRI, Dr. Anson confirmed that Henry had a large tumor near his brainstem. The news was delivered calmly, and a pediatric brain surgeon was to see them within a few hours.

“We sank inside ourselves. The heaviest pain in the world. I felt like I had suddenly quadrupled in weight, and an oily, black whirlpool began to swirl where my heart had been,” Delaney described.

Henry underwent surgery to remove the tumor and returned home in June 2017. Unfortunately, a follow-up scan in September revealed that the cancer had returned.

Recalling their final days with Henry, Delaney shared: “I lay with him, and Leah held him and danced with him. His brothers read to him and played with him.”

Henry passed away peacefully at home in January 2018.

“Henry opened his eyes and looked into Leah’s eyes around five the next morning. Then he died,” Delaney wrote.

He expressed his solace, saying: “I am so happy Henry died at home. I am so happy that he did so in the arms of his beautiful mother, who loved him desperately.”

“I am so happy that he lay between us afterward, and we could kiss and hold him and stroke his beautiful, long, sandy-blonde hair,” he added.

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