Ryan Reynolds wished Sandra Bullock a happy birthday in classic Reynolds fashion.
To celebrate her 59th trip around the sun on Wednesday, he shared an Instagram clip of a head-turning nude scene the two filmed for the 2009 romantic comedy The Proposal. He added the caption, "Happy Birthday to the inimitable and stunning Sandra Bullock! For your birthday this year, I got us both intimacy coordinators. And an HR department. And clothing?"
The lighthearted yet revealing scene shows Bullock, stark naked after a shower, slip and fall through an open door, landing face-to-face with Reynolds, who's also stark naked after a run.
It was an awkward — albeit hilarious — scene for the two characters. But for the actors themselves, the awkwardness was assuaged by a long history of knowing each other.
"Ryan and I have known each other since we were prepubescent. We go way, way, way back," she said, recalling the steamy scene during a 2021 interview on the podcast About Last Night with Adam Ray. "We had to do the naked scene that day and Anne Fletcher, our director who's just incredible, she's great."
"We had a closed set, which means no one's allowed to be on there, just hair and makeup coming in to fluff and hide," Bullock said. "Ryan and I have these flesh-colored things stuck to our privates, my hair is strategically over the nipples and Ryan's little— not little, at all! It's just whatever's there, and I don't know because I didn't see it, I didn't look!"
"When they'd say cut, we couldn't really move. He was on his back with his knees up, and I'm on the floor just sort of resting on his knees, just waiting, and you don't wanna look and we couldn't really move.
"Then," said Bullock, "I hear Anne Fletcher from the darkness go, 'Ryan, we can see your ball sack!' I'm like, 'Oh God!' because you wanna look down but I'm like, 'Don't look down. Don't look down.' ... Everyone in the darkness spun around to see if they could find a monitor. I was like, 'Anne, there's a way to present that information....' "
Bullock agreed to do the nude scene "only if I can be humiliated and funny."
"You will not see me trying to attempt being sexy naked — in real life or onscreen. There's just no point in it!" she said. "It was for that reason, with a friend that you trusted comedically, and safety-wise, I knew I was in the presence of safety."
