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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 withPeople 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.

Ryan Reynolds

THE HITMAN’S

BODYGUARD STARS

BOND OVER THEIR

OFFSCREEN LIVES AS DADS

OF DAUGHTERS

ByMIA McNIECE

andKARA WARNER

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Samuel L.

Jackson &

Men of Action

Jackson, 68, plays an

assassin who needs

his own protection

(Reynolds, 40) in the

action-comedyThe

Hitman’s Bodyguard,

in theaters Aug. 18.