Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Bradley Cooper

Maybe some of the spectacular elements of John Krasinski‘s upcoming movie, IF, is the all-star voice solid he lined up for it.

The multihyphenate stopped by The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon on Friday to debate the mission, and the late evening host couldn’t assist however ask about how the writer-director managed to get main stars to signal onto the mission.

“I gotta say, essentially the most yeses of my profession was on this film and the quickest yeses as a result of all of them love the thought of creativeness, going again to your childhood,” Krasinski shared.

When discussing the ice dice, voiced by Bradley Cooper, the Quiet Place star defined, “I don’t know why once I created this man, in my head, I used to be like, ‘He’s from Philly, and he’s just a little bummed to be residing in Arizona.’”

Jimmy Fallon then pulled up a photograph of Blake Full of life‘s character, which Krasinski defined is “a cat who’s getting over her worry of water, so she clothes like an octopus.” He joked he used “emotional blackmail” to get the Gossip Lady star to affix the movie, which additionally stars her husband, Ryan Reynolds.

“I used to be like, ‘All people’s doing it,’” The Workplace actor stated. “She was so good to leap on board.”

As for maybe some of the spectacular visitor stars on IF, the Tonight Present host was shocked to see George Clooney signal on because the voice of the Spaceman.

“It is a form of deep, deep-cut Easter egg,” Krasinski joked. “That’s his character from Gravity in my head, that he’s nonetheless simply floating round.”

Emily Blunt, Steve Carrell, Matt Damon, Jon Stewart, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Maya Rudolph, Sam Rockwell, Louis Gossett Jr., Sebastian Maniscalco, Chris Meloni, Richard Jenkins and Awkwafina spherical out the fantasy pic’s voice solid.

The Jack Ryan star’s working relationship with The Ides of March star goes again over a decade when he starred in Clooney’s 2008 movie Leatherheads. In reality, the Ticket to Paradise actor was the primary one who thought the One thing Borrowed star would direct sooner or later.

“He would take me to dinner whereas we have been taking pictures Leatherheads, and he would present me on a drawing, ‘That is what I’m going to shoot tomorrow. I’m going to place the cameras right here,’” he recalled. “And I stated, ‘That’s superb. Why are you telling me this?’ And he’s like, ‘Effectively, you’re not simply going to be an actor, proper? You’re going to go on to direct.’ And I went, ‘Pfft, yeah.’ I had no concept. He did earlier than I did.”

Elsewhere within the dialog, Krasinski defined that he bought the thought for the movie about 10 years in the past however didn’t begin writing it till the COVID-19 pandemic when he felt he and Emily Blunt’s youngsters wanted it. He shared that he used to look at their daughters disappear into this magical world the place mother and father weren’t allowed and, over time, they did it much less.

“It wasn’t identical to the enjoyment that was on their face, it was how genuine they have been. They may very well be something they needed on this world, and I stated, ‘Em, that might make an amazing film,’” he recounted. “It really wasn’t till the pandemic when, genuinely, I noticed their gentle beginning to exit, they usually began enjoying fewer and fewer imaginary video games. The world began to come back in, and I went, ‘Oh, my God, that is the definition of rising up.’ And they also stated, ‘Are we going to be OK?’ And I went, ‘That’s it. I’m scripting this film proper now to show to you that magical world is at all times there, and you’ll at all times return.’”

IF hits theaters on Might 17.