When I mention Gosford Park, he says: “I couldn’t believe who I was working with on that. Bacon grasped early on that there’s no shame in playing the smaller role in a film of big names, and Phillippe got that, too. Unlike so many of his contemporaries – Freddie Prinze Jr, Selma Blair, Jennifer Love Hewitt – he was making that tricky transition from teen heartthrob to serious adult actor by parking his ego, working in ensemble films ( Crash) and taking supporting roles ( The Lincoln Lawyer). I mean, they’ve met Obamaīack in the 2000s, it looked like Phillippe would tread a similar path to the one Kevin Bacon had the decade before. ![]() ![]() “You really get beat up in a lot of ways.” My kids are so much more worldly and better educated than I was. Yet just five years later, Witherspoon and Phillippe would split up, and instead of Timberlake talking hopefully about how he looked like Phillippe, Phillippe would be getting mistaken for Timberlake. Then Reese says something like, ‘Well, I think Ryan’s much better looking,’” he grins. Although there’s a great clip from Jay Leno’s Tonight Show when Reese was on and so were ‘NSync, and Justin talks about how he’s often mistaken for me. ![]() ![]() Photograph: Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy
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