Brandon Sklenar talks about building his on-screen bond with Blake Lively while filming 'It Ends With Us' and shares his thoughts on continuing the saga with 'It Starts With Us.' Plus, he dishes on shooting an 'It Ends With Us' promo with Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman and Ryan's mother.
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00:00Have to say you just shot a promo with Brian Reynolds Hugh Jackman and Ryan's mother
00:04How many takes did you need to get through that because it was hysterical. We honestly kind of breezed through it
00:10Yeah, first time I read it was while we were doing it
00:14So my reactions are very genuine because I had no idea what the hell was going on
00:19But I mean, that's just a testament to Ryan
00:22And that guy's incredible to watch him work and watch him come up with things and on the moment and jokes and and I'm I'm
00:28I'm pretty I'm slow. I'm not he's so fast
00:33Yeah, I mean I'd come up try and come up with a joke ten minutes after we're you know done with a bit
00:38I got something and we're already done with the thing. So
00:41Yeah, it was genius for sure
00:43But he did he was calling out essentially the chemistry between you and Blake on screen, which was I mean
00:48It's it's pretty much instant when you watch the movie
00:50How were you able to build that bond between the two of you with were there any?
00:55Bonding exercises between the cast off screen or how did that work?
00:58You know, honestly
01:00first time we met in person was
01:03Shooting one of the last scenes in the movie and we didn't really talk much at all
01:07I think it's just one of those situations where we just got lucky, you know
01:11like we are our frequencies kind of a line and you know, just me as a person I
01:16When I met her sure children were running around on set shouldn't you know?
01:20She just had a four-month-old baby
01:23You know her husband's away working so
01:25Made my job easy because me as Brandon I was kind of looking at her the same way
01:28Alice would look at Lily and the respective like I'm just gonna show up and be here for this woman and
01:32give hold space for her and give her whatever she needs and and
01:36which is ultimately Alice's intention, so
01:40yeah, we just we just connected in that way and and
01:43And she has the unbelievable ability to just make people feel comfortable and safe and you just forget you're on a set, you know
01:50So I think we just got really really fortunate with that. Yeah, I
01:54Also wanted to ask I know that this film or and this book as well deals with a lot of heavy themes
02:00Was there a particular scene that was challenging for you personally to work through?
02:06Or maybe a line that was tough to the scene on the couch is challenging that was a challenging scene
02:14Is in that Alice is kind of revealing something about himself that's ultimately in support of her
02:19But it was interesting to find a way
02:22To do it where it wasn't about him, you know to reveal this deeply personal thing about him
02:28That was in service of her without making it about him
02:32which is why we added I improvised the thing in the beginning of the scene because I was like I
02:37Both of us like we feel like we need humor in this scene to get into this emotional space
02:42You know, we need to go into this with humor
02:45But that was probably the most challenging one to figure out how it's such a such a fine line to do that, you know
02:51Oh, yeah, and very quickly because I know the fans want to know what are your thoughts on and it starts with us on-screen adaptation?
02:58I'd love to do it. Yeah, if this thing hits, yeah, I'd love to do it
03:01Yeah
03:01I think it's a beautiful book and and and I'm excited I would love to get into Alice's life more and his
03:06Mother and the relationship with her and yeah, I think it would be brilliant