Chris Pine is recalling the “terrifying” feeling of his first huge job.
ET’s Denny Directo spoke to the 43-year-old actor at his Poolman premiere on Wednesday, almost 20 years after the discharge of The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. Pine performed Nicholas Devereaux within the beloved movie, his first main performing credit score.
“I bear in mind after we needed to do the premiere for that, it was at Disneyland. I bought picked up in a stretch limo with my agent and we went there and I used to be so nervous,” Pine mentioned of the premiere for the film, which he co-starred in alongside Anne Hathaway.
“I imply, I bear in mind carrying Converse and gray pants and simply being completely terrified,” he mentioned. “Simply because this entire expertise and folks shouting… you have to get used to that entire factor.”
Pine’s feedback come on the heels of stories that Princess Diaries 3 is in growth.
“Yeah, I am right here! I am right here for it,” Pine instructed ET again in March. “Give me give me a cellphone name or an e-mail.”
Within the meantime, Pine’s followers can see him is his new movie, Poolman, which additionally serves as his directorial debut. He stars within the movie as pool cleaner Darren Barrenmen alongside the likes of Danny DeVito, Annette Bening, Jennifer Jason Leigh and DeWanda Clever.
“If you develop up, you’ve these beliefs of who your mother and father are and you then get to know them as adults, so I feel that this was partly making sense of that,” Pine instructed ET at Wednesday’s premiere. “… We wrote it within the pandemic, so there was so much about being alone. I do know what it is prefer to really feel alone — except for COVID — and that feeling of being uncomfortable in your pores and skin and trying to find love and never figuring out actually easy methods to discover it.”
“I suppose there’s two methods to go about that: you may both make a very unhappy sack film that has a number of string quartets, or you may simply go as quick as doable into foolish,” he continued of the comedy-mystery. “I simply determined to go as quick as doable into foolish and make my experimental movie.”
Poolman hits theaters Might 10.
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