In the brand new romantic comedy Love Again, youngsters’s guide writer Mira Ray (Priyanka Chopra Jonas) learns find out how to, effectively, love once more when she falls for an leisure journalist (Sam Heughan) who has her late fiancé’s cellphone quantity.
But first she tries her hand at on-line relationship, assembly a match for dinner at a restaurant. As the digital camera pans up from the bottom up, the thriller man is revealed to be somebody audiences will instantly acknowledge: Nick Jonas, Chopra Jonas’s real-life husband.
In a bit of wink-wink rom-com hilarity, the 2 transform woefully incompatible. Jonas’s Joel is a self-obsessed meathead dude-bro who nonetheless places the strikes on Mira (and licks her face within the again of a New York City taxi) regardless of the shortage of any discernible chemistry between them.
In a brand new interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Chopra Jonas defined how she and writer-director Jim Strouse lured her husband into capturing a cameo whereas filming in London in 2020.
“We were filming during COVID, so we had to cast a random actor to come in and do this scene, and that person would’ve had to quarantine for 14 days to be able to shoot the scene with me,” Chopra Jonas (Quantico, Citadel) advised us.
“And I was additionally a bit icked out in regards to the licking of my face by just a few individual. And Jim was like, ‘Well, your husband is here.’ [Nick] had come to London to assist me settle in. And [Jim] was like, ‘What if we ask him?’ And I was like… ‘Great idea.’ I went house and Nick was simply so candy about it. He actually took one for the staff.
In truth, the actress says her Jonas Brother pop-star husband might need loved the project a bit an excessive amount of.
“He was really leaning into like practicing the [character’s] douchebag nature … like glancing at his biceps and stuff,” she laughs. “It’s like the opposite of who he is. So it was really fun. … He loved it.”
Love Again is now enjoying.
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