Ryan Reynolds’ road to superstardom has had plenty of bumps along the way, and the “Deadpool” star credits wife Blake Lively for keeping him grounded throughout the ups and downs of a career in Hollywood.

As Reynolds explains in a new interview with Variety, he had a lot riding on the success of “Deadpool” — a risky venture, the first-ever R-rated comic book movie — and credits his better half with helping him through the stress leading up to the movie’s premiere.

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“By the time we were in post [production], we’d been to Comic-Con, and people went crazy for it,” Ryan tells Variety. “The expectations were eating me alive.”

Luckily, he adds: “Blake helped me through that. I’m lucky to have her around just to keep me sane.”

In the interview, Reynolds also hints that Deadpool may have a new love interest in the sequel — and this time around it may not be a woman.

“What love is to Deadpool may not be what love is to Batman or someone else,” Reynolds says of the possibility the character — described as pansexual — could have a same-sex love interest. “I think that could be played up more. He’s an outsider in every way, shape, and form.”

He adds: “The only thing that you have to consider going forward is, ‘Are we being faithful to the canon that we nurtured and created?’ One of those things is that Deadpool is in love with Vanessa. Deadpool isn’t in love with Vanessa just because she’s a woman. He’s in love with Vanessa because he loves her.”