Though shorter-lived, former specialist snowboarder Shaun White was ready to are living out his acting goals in Paramount+’s new comedy/secret “Reunion.”
“He wasn’t intended to be in the motion picture,” Nina Dobrev, who performs Amanda Tanner in the film, completely told the Article. “The scene was basically born from him coming to check out me on established.”
White played himself in “Friends with Benefits” (2011) alongside Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake. He expressed to Dobrev and the crew that he “loved” the working experience, but he needed to “not be me future time.”
Dobrev and the crew proposed White get aspect in “Reunion” suitable then and there.
“Why never you do something in this film?” they questioned to which White immediately responded: “Let’s do it.”
“Reunion” follows previous higher faculty classmates at their 20th reunion as they uncover the murder of a single of their individual, Mathew Danbury (Chace Crawford), whilst snowed-in at his residence the early morning following the large get together.
The camera pans to White when the previous classmates swiftly get wild at their bash. The athlete is witnessed chugging alcohol out of bottles duct taped to his palms along with former classmate Ray Hammond (Lil Rel Lowry).
It was a “quick minimal fun” minute immediately after “we just threw a line at him,” Dobrev explained to the Article.
“I wasn’t in the scene with him, but it was fun,” she informed the Post.
Dobrev, 35, and White, 37, in the beginning fulfilled all through a brief face at an awards clearly show in 2012, but weren’t formally released right until 2019. In April 2020, fans have been rapid to see White’s tattooed arm in an April 2020 Instagram article that Dobrev shared at the time.
Offscreen, White has been supporting Dobrev as she recovers from a dirt-biking incident she was in at the end of Could. Dobrev sustained accidents to her knee, ACL, meniscus, and has gone through surgical procedures given that.
To cheer her up, White channeled her “The Vampire Diaries” days, dancing all-around in a sweatshirt with “Elena Gilbert” in daring throughout the chest. In 2022, White disclosed he viewed “TVD” for the initial time in a TikTok right after the pair was separated because of COVID-19.
Discussing their potential, White told People that he feels “no pressure” to suggest to Dobrev — but teased at the possibility.
“But I advised her, I was like, ‘Look, after the Olympics, I ultimately got my freedom to do no matter what. And let us just have fun and be with each other and assistance each other,’” he mentioned in May well 2023. “We’ll see what occurs.”
White previously dated Phantogram vocalist Sarah Barthel for 5 decades until eventually 2018.
Dobrev, for her component, was in a three-yr romantic relationship with her “TVD” costar Ian Somerhalder from 2010 to 2013.
“Reunion” is available for streaming on June 28 on Paramount +.
