Petition for Kaitlin Olson and Rob McElhenney to Replace Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively aren’t the only Hollywood power couple of the moment: Reynolds’s soccer team co-owner, Rob McElhenney, and his wife Kaitlin Olson, are both nominated for Emmys this year. This is Olson’s third nomination, the second in a row for her role in Hacks, and her husband’s second for producing the documentary series about the soccer team he co-owns with Reynolds, Welcome to Wrexham.

“We’ve had a bit of a dearth of awards in the McElhenney-Olson house. So it feels good to be recognized by the community,” McElhenney said on the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast.

The way they talk about their marriage and their relationship to their work is refreshing when compared to Reynolds and Lively, who seem to assume that they’ll both be involved in whatever the other is working on, as if they couldn’t produce good work otherwise and regardless of what anyone else involved thinks or feels. This is how McElhenney talked about watching Olson in the role she’s nominated for, for example:

“I had a really tragic moment earlier this year when we were watching an episode of ‘Hacks’ that Kaitlin was in, in which she’s nominated for an Emmy, and I realized halfway through the episode that it was the best thing she’d ever done. And I realized I had no part in it!”

It’s funny, of course, because they met on the set of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. But I appreciate their independence from each other. I’ve always been creeped out by the married couples who have to do everything together and are always up each other’s asses.

Now, while McElhenney is wrapped up in Wrexham, Olson is starring in a new show on ABC, High Potential, playing “a single mom who uses her exceptional mind and unconventional knack for solving crimes to assist a by-the-book seasoned detective.”

But she admits she was nervous to hear her husband’s feedback on the show. “I was very nervous for him to watch the pilot, because he also knows what he’s doing and I trust his taste. He’s also a very honest person. Sometimes that’s painful, but it was exciting when it liked it,” she said.

Meanwhile, they still get to make Sunny together and have started work on season 18. “For the three months that it takes to really make ‘Sunny’ soup to nuts, we give everything,” said McElhenney.

See, I just like them. They’re normal (famous last words, but I’m sticking to it). Add your name to the petition below.