Brandon Sklenar has been proper beside his It Ends With Us co-stars selling their upcoming romantic drama for weeks, however he wasn’t anticipating to get a shock grilling from Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman.
On Tuesday, Sklenar, 34, attended the New York Metropolis premiere of It Ends With Us, the place he spoke with ET’s Rachel Smith concerning the current viral promo, which he “had no idea” about.
Forward of the premiere, Reynolds, 47, shared a clip of him crashing a junket interview with Sklenar — who performs the love curiosity of Reynolds’ spouse, Blake Vigorous, in It Ends With Us — and posing as an interviewer to grill the actor on the character of his relationship with Vigorous, 36. The hilarious bit additionally noticed Reynolds ask his real-life mother, Tammy Reynolds, to grill Sklenar, in addition to his Deadpool & Wolverine co-star and real-life bestie, Jackman, 55.
“The first time I ever read it was while we were shooting it,” Sklenar revealed to ET. “So I had no idea what was happening.”
The “junket crashers” video noticed Sklenar awkwardly dodging questions from Reynolds and Reynolds’ mother about why he desires to steal Vigorous away, and reached a surprisingly heartfelt excessive level when Jackman got here out and Sklenar was genuinely moved simply by getting to fulfill the beloved film star.
“I found out Hugh was coming like an hour before,” Sklenar defined. “He’s the literal dream… I mean, all of them are…. [but] to have someone that is that prolific and incredible — it could be a musical, it could be Wolverine, it can be Prisoners, it can be whatever it is, and he’s literally one of the greatest actors walking the Earth.”
Sklenar stated he was actually moved by getting the meet Jackman in individual.
“He’s so unbelievably kind and down to Earth,” he shared. “We finished that video and I walked away and someone came up and was like, ‘Do you want an iced coffee?’ And I just started crying, like legitimately crying. It was just so beautiful.”
“It was such a beautiful thing to do, such a show of support,” he added, referring to Reynolds and Jackman lending their star energy and buzz to advertise one other movie they are not even in. “It was just amazing, like on a human level. Just incredible.”
It Ends With Us will likely be going up in opposition to Deadpool & Wolverine for its third weekend on the field workplace. The superhero epic has already change into the high-grossing R-rated movie on the home field workplace and raked in $852 million worldwide.
It Ends With Us — tailored from Colleen Hoover’s novel of the identical title — follows flower store proprietor Lily Bloom’s (Vigorous) risky relationship with boyfriend Ryle Kincaid (Justin Baldoni) amid the reappearance of her past love, Atlas Corrigan (Sklenar). The movie, directed by Baldoni, additionally stars Hasan Minhaj and Jenny Slate as Allysa Kincaid, Lily’s finest buddy and Ryle’s sister.
It Ends With Us hits theaters Aug. 9.
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