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While Free Guy plays up the connection that Ryan Reynolds’ Guy feels towards Jodie Comer’s Molotov Girl, the supposed “woman of his dreams,” there’s another relationship that sneaks up on audiences in the long run. It’s the friendship between Guy and his best friend Buddy, played by Lil Rel Howery, that lands the ultimate gut punch in the film’s third act. And as Howery revealed to me in our recent interview, it was a moment that was so heartbreaking, he had to take a walk after filming it.