David Duchovny and Meg Ryan on Oct. 30, 2023.Photo:Dave Allocca/StarPix/Shutterstock
Dave Allocca/StarPix/Shutterstock
Meg RyanandDavid Duchovny’s new movie has a mystery third costar!
After a special screening ofWhat Happens Laterin New York City Monday, Ryan, 61, and Duchovny, 63, addressed the uncredited voice of an airport announcer heard throughout the romantic comedy.
Other than that voice, Ryan and Duchovny play the film’s only two characters — and curiosity is building after Jimmy Kimmel guessed the disembodied voice may belong toTom Hanksduring the pair’sappearance onJimmy Kimmel Livelast Wednesday.
Duchovny denied that Hanks is in the movie on Monday before he confessed even he does not know who did the voice work for the film.
“I wasn’t there when they did all that, that was all in [postproduction],” he said. “I don’t even know if it’s a man.”
Meg Ryan and David Duchovny in ‘What Happens Later’.Bleecker Street
Bleecker Street
The official credit for “Airport Voice” inWhat Happens Later, Ryan’s second movie as a director, is listed asHal Liggett, a pseudonym for an actor whom Ryan does not yet want to reveal.
“All I can say about Hal Ligget is that he’s somehow able to put his heart and his soul [into the part],” Ryan said of the still-unknown actor. “He got laughs,” Duchovny added.
“He got laughs and he’s an extremely generous performer, and I can’t say much more,” Ryan shared of the actor’s performance. “I just am so grateful that he did the movie.”
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Duchovny went on to joke that Hal Liggett is a pseudonym for Barack Obama, while Ryan shared that the name draws from the artificial intelligence HAL 9000 from the 1968 classic2001: A Space Odyssey. “Sometimes he’s just information and sometimes it’s just got so much soul,” she said. “When he tells [herWhat Happens Latercharacter Willa] not to lose heart, it’s all in that voice. He’s beautiful.”
David Duchovny and Meg Ryan on Oct. 30, 2023.Dave Allocca/StarPix
Dave Allocca/StarPix
“For the chance to work with Meg in a comedy like this, I mean I was going to do it immediately,” Duchovny said during Monday’s Q&A. “And Meg and I started talking about it, and it took a year to get everything going.”
Duchovny shared that “the dirty secret about movie making is nobody ever rehearses” while he spoke to how he and Ryan rehearsed significantly for the film.
What Happens Lateris in theaters Friday.
source: people.com
