Dave Franco is spilling a childhood secret — his first-ever crush.
While a guest on Hot Ones Versus where he and wife Alison Brie, 42, went head-to-head devouring ultra spicy chicken wings, the 40-year-old actor revealed to Brie which actress first caught his eye — Helen Mirren.
Brie, who costars with Franco in their upcoming body horror pic Together, was in disbelief over the reveal. “I’m sorry, no. Helen Mirren was your first childhood crush?,” Brie asked as Franco laughed.
“You can’t ’no’ Helen Mirren,” he added, to which Brie quipped “From what?”
“From being gorgeous,” Franco replied with a smile.
The Love Lies Bleeding actor had initially written Jennifer Love Hewitt’s name down on a white board, but scratched it out and replaced her with three-time Oscar winner.
“She’s like James Dean,” Franco explained as Brie continued to question how The Queen actress could have possibly topped his childhood crush list.
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Dave Franco on ‘Hot Ones Versus’
The pair, who tied the knot in 2017, play a dysfunctional codependent couple in horror film Together directed by Michael Shanks. In the film, their characters end up moving to the countryside where they encounter a supernatural force that causes their bodies to undergo mysterious and startling changes.
Speaking at PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly’s Shutterstock Official Sundance Film Festival Portrait Studio, the couple joked that playing isolated couple Millie and Tim had real-world implications for their relationship. “I think we’re more codependent than ever,” Franco said.
“Yeah,” agreed Brie with a laugh. “The film is about a codependent couple who’s sort of in a bit of a rut. They’re feeling dangerously codependent, having issues with that. And I think we went into it being like, ‘Our relationship is much healthier and everything’s good.’ And then we came out on the other side a little more codependent.”
Together, Shanks’ directorial debut, reunites Brie and Franco (who also co-produced) for the first time onscreen since the couple costarred in 2017’s The Little Hours and The Disaster Artist. Franco also directed his wife in 2023’s Somebody I Used to Know.
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