Within the new romantic comedy Love Once more, kids’s e-book writer Mira Ray (Priyanka Chopra Jonas) learns how you can, nicely, love once more when she falls for an leisure journalist (Sam Heughan) who has her late fiancé’s cellphone quantity.
However first she tries her hand at on-line relationship, assembly a match for dinner at a restaurant. Because the digicam 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 little bit of wink-wink rom-com hilarity, the 2 grow to be woefully incompatible. Jonas’s Joel is a self-obsessed meathead dude-bro who nonetheless places the strikes on Mira (and licks her face behind a New York Metropolis taxi) regardless of the dearth of any discernible chemistry between them.
In a brand new interview with Yahoo Leisure, Chopra Jonas defined how she and writer-director Jim Strouse lured her husband into taking pictures a cameo whereas filming in London in 2020.
“We had been filming throughout COVID, so we needed to solid a random actor to come back in and do that scene, and that particular person would’ve needed to quarantine for 14 days to have the ability to shoot the scene with me,” Chopra Jonas (Quantico, Citadel) instructed us.
“And I used to be additionally a little bit icked out in regards to the licking of my face by just a few particular person. And Jim was like, ‘Properly, your husband is right here.’ [Nick] had come to London to assist me settle in. And [Jim] was like, ‘What if we ask him?’ And I used to be like… ‘Nice thought.’ I went residence and Nick was simply so candy about it. He actually took one for the crew.
In truth, the actress says her Jonas Brother pop-star husband might need loved the task a little bit an excessive amount of.
“He was actually leaning into like practising the [character’s] douchebag nature … like glancing at his biceps and stuff,” she laughs. “It is like the other of who he’s. So it was actually enjoyable. … He liked it.”
Love Once more is now taking part in.
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