Samuel L. Jackson & Ryan Reynolds

The Hitman’s  bodyguard stars bond over their off screen lives as dads of daughters.

Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson first met at a fund-raiser at Jackson’s L.A. home. “He had all these great photos of his life on a table,” Reynolds recalls. “I said, ‘I never think to do this.’ He said, ‘Why not? It’s your f------ life, man!’ It stayed with me, and now I have photos of my kids and my wife all over our house.” The Hitman’s Bodyguard stars sat down with People to discuss marriage, raising daughters (Jackson and his wife, LaTanya, are parents to Zoe, 35, and Reynolds and his wife, Blake Lively, have 2-year-old James and 10-month-old Inez) and loving Downton Abbey’s grande dame.

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