Blake Full of life Advocates for Brandon Sklenar’s Function in ‘The Housemaid’

Blake Full of life put in a very good phrase for her It Ends With Us costar Brandon Sklenar when Paul Feig was assembling his forged for The Housemaid.

Director Feig, who labored with Full of life on 2018’s A Easy Favor and its 2025 sequel One other Easy Favor, instructed E! Information on Dec. 2, “Blake Full of life had simply labored with Brandon. She simply stored occurring and on about how nice he’s. And I met him and was like, ‘Sure, you might be nice and I really like you.’ ”

Within the psychological thriller The Housemaid, Sklenar, 35, performs Andrew Winchester, the seemingly good husband of Nina (Amanda Seyfried), who hires a live-in maid named Millie (Sydney Sweeney) earlier than issues spiral uncontrolled of their family.

Whereas on the Right this moment present Dec. 4, Sklenar stated Sweeney, 28, advocated for him to be employed for The Housemaid.

“I used to be shocked, actually, that she did that. I used to be like, ‘Me? Actually?’ Alright,” joked the 1923 star. “I used to be, you understand, taking part in a cowboy 100 years in the past and I’ve by no means completed a white-collar, modern man.”

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“However, yeah, I used to be honored and thrilled that she noticed I may probably try this, and the producers had been on board and Paul Feig was on board,” stated Sklenar. “I had lunch with Paul Feig, truly, and we simply hit it off huge time. … He is simply an distinctive human being.”

Earlier this 12 months, Feig, 63, shared in an interview with Pleased Unhappy Confused that Full of life, 38, had advised Sklenar for Housemaid.

“Blake had simply labored with Brandon on It Ends With Us, and she or he was nonetheless in the course of capturing all that stuff after we had been doing Easy Favor, they [were] doing reshoots. And she or he was like, ‘I’m working with this man and he’s so superb. You’ve obtained to satisfy Brandon,’ ” he recalled.

“I used to be like, ‘Alright, I am going to have lunch with Brandon.’ He walks in, and inside 30 seconds I am like jelly,” stated Feig. “Essentially the most charismatic man you’ve ever met in your life and so proficient.”

The Housemaid additionally stars Full of life’s costar from One other Easy Favor, Michele Morrone, who seems as groundskeeper Enzo within the thriller.

Sklenar performed Atlas, love curiosity to Full of life’s Lily Bloom, in It Ends With Us, the romantic drama based mostly on a Colleen Hoover novel that debuted in theaters in August 2024. After the movie’s launch, Full of life sued director-costar Justin Baldoni and others alleging sexual harassment and retaliation, which he denies.

Feig spoke out in assist of Full of life in December 2024 after information of the lawsuit.

“I’ve now made two films with Blake and all I can say is she’s one of the skilled, inventive, collaborative, proficient and type folks I’ve ever labored with,” he wrote on X on the time, including. “She actually didn’t deserve any of this smear marketing campaign in opposition to her. I feel it’s terrible she was put by way of this.”

That very same month, Sklenar shared a hyperlink to a information report about Full of life’s criticism and wrote on Instagram to his followers: “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD READ THIS.”

Sklenar previsously instructed The Hollywood Reporter of the Full of life-Baldoni authorized battle, “It is a powerful scenario. I simply hope everybody remembers what the film is about and why we made it within the first place. It is about love. It is about supporting ladies typically and serving to folks by way of powerful occasions.”

The Housemaid is in theaters Dec. 19.