'A lovely, lovely man': Lori Loughlin heaps praises on 'The Night Before' co-star Keanu Reeves
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Lori Loughlin has heaped praises for her co-star Keanu Reeves. The actress appeared on Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber’s 'How Rude, Tanneritos!' podcast where she opened up on her time working with 'The Matrix' actor during their 1988 film 'The Night Before'.
“[Keanu] was the nerd?” Sweetin asked about the actor’s role in the film in which Reeves’ character takes Loughlin’s popular character to the prom before waking up with no memories of the prior night.
Lori Loughlin calls Keanu Reeves 'the nerdy guy'
“He was the nerdy guy,” the 59-year-old replied. “Could you imagine?” “He was so wonderful,” she added, further stating that “What a lovely, lovely man.”
Sweetin then said that she wanted to “meet him so bad” because she heard he was so “awesome and nice” to which Loughlin confirmed that “he’s just a dream” and “so sweet.” Loughlin went on to recall her experience of working on the “funny” film which she described as a “quirky black comedy.”
Lori Loughlin recalls a murder taking place in the alleyway they were filming
She also recalled that they had shot several scenes in “downtown Los Angeles at night” and that when they had gone off to “lunch one night”, they had returned to the set to find out that someone “had been murdered in the alleyway where we were just shooting.” “I was like, ‘Oh my goodness.’ We were in the thick of it,” she explained, as per People.
However, she added that her overall filming experience “was fun” and she ”loved it.”
Lori Loughlin recently made an appearance on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'
The actress has stepped away from the spotlight for a while now since her role in the 2019 college admissions scandal. The 'When Calls the Heart' star recently made an appearance in an episode of Larry David's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' where she played a heightened version of herself who is rejected from country clubs around Los Angeles due to her tarnished reputation following a scandal.
Jeff Schaffer, executive producer for the show, said they had pitched the idea to Loughlin who had been enthusiastic about playing the part in the show.
“We pitched the general concept of: ‘You get into the club, and then we find out how ultra-competitive you are, and how you’re willing to bend the rules or break them,’ ” Schaffer recalled to The Hollywood Reporter. “And then once she agreed, we really started hammering out the details of the script.” “She saw how funny it was and was into it immediately,” Schaffer added.