From teenage dream to smart sage.
Ryan Phillippe is taking the identical journey that actors comparable to Luke Perry took earlier: he rose to fame in “teen idol” sort roles, and now he’s enjoying a mum or dad determine.
“I think having three kids of varied ages and having been a father for a long time, that’s a natural space for me,” Phillippe, 50, advised The Publish about his new teen drama, “Motorheads.”
However, he added, for his iconic function in 1999’s “Cruel Intentions,” he finds it “crazy” that “that film still has new fans today, and that it holds up the way that it has.”
“It’s also crazy that they’re now remaking so much of the stuff that I’ve been in – that makes me very aware of my age!”
He shares son Deacon, 21, together with his ex-wife, Reese Witherspoon, 49, whom he was married to from 1999 to 2008. Additionally they share daughter Ava, 25. (He has a 3rd youngster, daughter Kai, 13, together with his ex, “Pitch Perfect” actress Alexis Knapp.)
“Motorheads” (premiering Might 20 on Prime Video) follows excessive schoolers Zac (Michael Cimino) and Caitlyn (Melissa Collazo), who transfer with their mother (Nathalie Kelley) again to her Rust Belt hometown, the place there’s a thriving avenue race scene. They’re shut with their uncle, Logan (Phillippe), a former NASCAR mechanic who now struggles to maintain an auto physique store afloat.
Deacon performs Logan’s brother, Christian, in flashbacks, as he vanished beneath mysterious circumstances 17 years in the past.
“It’s like, at one point, I was like these early 20-somethings on this set. And it’s funny how watching them interact and hearing them talk about the industry and their careers really does take me back to that time,” Ryan recalled to The Publish.
The “I Know What You Did Last Summer” star added, “But I also think that I’m at a place in my life where [I’m] able to share some of my experience, and be very open about what that has been like – the good and the bad – to kind of steer them in the right direction, or be a source of advice or a mentor.”
He quipped, “But yeah, I felt a little bit like Yoda sometimes on set.”
Ryan’s co-stars would usually ask him “about the old days of movie making, and what it used to be like.”
“Some of them are afraid of being replaced by AI,” he defined. “And I’m telling them that that’s probably not an issue for me – because I will already be face down by the time that happens.”
In his Instagram publish about “Motorheads,” Ryan joked that he doesn’t “die in this one.”
His characters in earlier high-profile roles, comparable to “Cruel Intentions,” “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and “Big Sky,” have all been killed off.
“[For ‘Big Sky’] they put me all over the key art and the billboards, and then I died in the first episode. So I had a lot of people that were very angry with me about that,” he recalled. “A lot of friends or fans were like, ‘oh, we’re going to watch this show and you die in the first episode!’”
“Now, I have to assure anyone when I’m in a project that I’m going to be in more than one episode.”
Since his “I Know What You Did Last Summer” character died, he received’t be a part of the 2025 sequel. He additionally wasn’t in Prime Video’s now cancelled revival of “Cruel Intentions.”
“It does and doesn’t seem that long ago. It’s interesting – there’s parts of me that remember it like yesterday, and then there’s another part of me that feels like it was someone else’s life altogether,” he mentioned. “You’re just happy that those things endure, and that people still care about the work that you did, in any capacity.”
Whereas filming “Cruel Intentions,” he mentioned he had no inkling that it will grow to be a cult traditional.
“I did have this hope of being in some sort of seminal team movie, because of the ones that I grew up watching, like the John Hughes movies, ‘Pretty in Pink’ and ‘The Breakfast Club.’ And so I think there was a hope of mine that I would be in something like that,” he went on. “But when you’re making it, you have no concept of it.”
