Meg Ryan and David Duchovny Tease Identity of Mystery Third Actor in New Rom-Com What Happens Later

Meg Ryan and David Duchovny’s new movie has a mysterious third actress!

After a special screening What happens later on Monday in New York, Ryan, 61, and Duchovny, 63, addressed the uncredited voice of an airport announcer heard throughout the romantic comedy.

Aside from that voice, Ryan and Duchovny only play two characters in the film — and curiosity is growing after Jimmy Kimmel guessed that the disembodied voice belonged to Tom Hanks during the pair’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live last wednesday.

On Monday, Duchovny denied Hanks was starring in the film before admitting he didn’t even know who did the voice for the film.

“I wasn’t there when they did all that, it was all in.” [postproduction]”, he said. “I don’t even know if it’s a man.”

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Meg Ryan and David Duchovny in ‘What Happens Later’.

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Official credit for “Airport Voice” in What happens laterRyan’s second film as a director, it is listed as Hal Liggett, a pseudonym for an actor Ryan has yet to reveal.

“All I can say about Hal Ligget is that he’s kind of able to put his heart and soul into it [into the part]” Ryan said of the still-unknown actor. “He laughed,” Duchovny added.

“He’s got laughs and he’s an extremely generous performer, and I can’t say much more,” Ryan said of the actor’s performance. “I’m so grateful that he made the movie.”

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Duchovny then joked that Hal Liggett was a pseudonym for Barack Obama, while Ryan said the name came from the HAL 9000 artificial intelligence from the 1968 classic. 2001: A Space Odyssey. “Sometimes he’s just information, and sometimes he just has so much soul,” she said. “When he says [her What Happens Later character Willa] not to lose heart, it’s all in that voice. It’s beautiful.”

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David Duchovny and Meg Ryan October 30, 2023

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Ryan’s new film follows ex-lovers Bill and Willa years after their break-up, when they unexpectedly meet at the airport for the first time in years. The pair are buried in a sudden snowstorm, leaving them to face their past together while stuck in the airport overnight.

“For the opportunity to work with Meg in a comedy like this, I think I was going to do it right away,” Duchovny said during a Q&A on Monday. “Both Meg and I started talking about it and it took a year to get it going.”

Duchovny said the “dirty secret of filmmaking is that nobody ever rehearses,” as he talked about how he and Ryan practiced extensively for the film.

“But we practiced and we practiced on Zoom. We just read and read and read,” he said. “And Meg would change and go back and rewrite. And then, by the time we got there, I’d done more rehearsals than I’d ever done for anything in my life, and it was fantastic.

What happens later is in theaters on Friday.

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