Ryan Reynolds‘ new action comedy Free Guy is the number-one movie in America, but for director Shawn Levy, it posed a challenge. He had to thread the needle between movie-going gamers who are familiar with elements like power-ups and non-player-characters like Reynolds’ Guy, and audience members who have never held a controller.

“I spoke with a lot of game publishers, coders, game designers, and played and watched a lot of games in preproduction, so getting that right was really important,” Levy said at a recent press event. “But it was also important to make a movie that required no gaming fluency from a viewer who wasn’t a gamer,” he added, “So kind of trying to tick both boxes was always part of the goal.”

For her part, Killing Eve Emmy-winner Comer, who plays a duel role as Mille and her avatar, Molotov Girl, is happy people are finding Free Guy is more than just a quote-unquote video game movie.

“You know…you see it written down a lot…’it’s an action comedy.’ But I just feel like there is so much more to that,” said Comer. “You know, there is actually…so much emotion and, you know, it provokes so much emotion in you.”

For the actress, a big draw was developing her characters with Levy and Reynolds. “There was so much for me to play with,” she explained. “From the moment I got the first draft…to…when we were on set, and we were playing around, and we were changing things…It was such a great experience to be able to also bring my own…ideas to play.”

Free Guy was released by 20th Century Studios, which is owned by ABC News’ parent company, Disney.

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A TikTok user’s impassioned man-crush confession about Jeffrey Dean Morgan has gone viral, and even got a response from the Walking Dead star himself — as well as from his wife, actress Hilarie Burton Morgan. 

“Have you seen this guy speak, and the twinkle in his eye?” the poster, who ABC Audio discovered is Utah’s Chance Terry, says at the beginning of the video. “It makes me sick to think of growing old and not looking like this man.”

Terry then riffs, “It’s like Matthew McConaughey and Sean Connery somehow fused together and now you have the perfect old Southern gentleman — who’s also a f***ing badass.”

Terry continues, “If anyone in this world would have a pet shark that was tamed and would let you pet him, it would be Jeffrey Dean Morgan. He just strikes me as the type of guy who would take dangerous things and make them love him.”

Continuing an olfactory theme featured on some of his other posts, Terry adds, “Jeffrey Dean Morgan smells like you just woke up to a fresh cup of coffee — in the f***ing wilderness. And you swear you hear birds singing, but it’s just Jeffrey Dean Morgan.”

Morgan himself retweeted the video he was sent by a follower, asking fans to help identify his admirer.

Calling the man crush “mutual,” Morgan posted, “I’ve not laughed this much in a while,” adding, “I’m not afraid to say it…he’s a handsome YOUNG buck.”

He also noted, “that’s EXACTLY what I smell like.” 

Hilarie Burton Morgan replied, “@JDMorgan is exactly as you describe! The shark lives in the pool and JD smells amazing.”

Terry later revealed on Instagram that he was personally messaged by Morgan, telling followers “that he is one of the nicest people.”

(Video contains uncensored profanity.)

Ok. Well? Man crush is mutual. pic.twitter.com/ViFVtI3mjk

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan (@JDMorgan) August 18, 2021

Can’t tell you how humbling it is to actually have you see that! And yes sir this is a series I do on my tik tok channel!

— Chance Terry (@ChancejTerry) August 18, 2021

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Zuri Adele stars as Malika in Freeform’s Good Trouble, a spin-off of The Fosters, and like most characters, hers has come a long way since the first season. Now in season three, fans are watching as Malika explores the idea of polyamory, which is something Adele says she was “really excited about.”

“Polyamory is something I’ve wanted to continue to learn so much about,” she tells ABC Audio. “I was excited, but I was also nervous because it’s a big responsibility. I want to do it right and I want to do it authentically.”

Polyamory, or consensual nonmonogamy, is described by Psychology Today as “the practice of having multiple intimate relationships.” It’s something that Adele says she gets to gain an understanding of, alongside her character.  

“I get to learn with Malika and takes so much pressure off. It also allows me to be authentic in my learning process,” she explains, adding that she’s been able to learn from friends and members of the LGBTQA+ community as well. 

As for what’s next for Malika’s love life, Adele teases that there’s a new work crush on the horizon.  

“This potential crush at work is… what’s really amazing is that this is a woman,” she spills. “Malika has never dated a woman before. And so she’s starting ask herself like ‘Oh am I interested in dating women too? Am I interested in polyamory as well?'”

Don’t try to put Malika in a box when it comes to her sexuality, though. Adele says, “[Malika’s] not necessarily putting a label on anything with her sexuality just yet as much as just exploring romantic energy with amazing people who are in her space.”

Good Trouble airs Wednesday at 10 pm on Freeform, and the next day on Hulu. 

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