Ryan Reynolds tries hawking ‘Red Notice’ prop on ‘Antiques Roadshow’
One man’s movie prop is another man’s “Antiques Roadshow” treasure.
But not in Ryan Reynolds’ case. The star of Netflix’s “Red Notice” stopped by the PBS cult hit series’ recent stop in Boston with the so-called “Cleopatra egg” to promote the new comedy-action thriller, also starring Gal Gadot and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
Reynolds, 45, shared the skit on Monday via Instagram, and captioned the post: The ‘Red Notice’ scene I wish I’d shot.”
Out of the 1.7 million views the clip has shown show so far, one fan called it the “funniest thing” they’d ever seen.
Said another, “I’d watch the s- -t out of a weekly show just about this!”
The almost two-minute clip opens with the “Antiques Roadshow” ragtime theme music as Reynolds and host Lark Mason are seated at either side of a table draped with the iconic navy blue cloth. Between them sits the prized faux relic.
Mason asks Reynolds to divulge what he knows about the piece.
“What is the family history?” he asks.
“This isn’t a family heirloom,” Reynolds clarifies. “My family disowned me. They don’t like me. It’s more of an heirloom that my good friend at the museum lent me.”
“He’s not aware that he lent it to me,” he added.
Dubiously, Mason responds, “It sounds a little complicated. So, that’s perhaps going to play into the value, because of regulatory issues.”
“Yes, there will be a lot of issues,” Reynolds responds with his signature smirk.
Lark goes on to describe the fictional artifact as one of a set of three golden eggs “commissioned by Cleopatra at the end of her life” in 30 BC. Two, he said, can be found in “public collections,” but one of them “disappeared” during World War II — pilfered by German soldiers and hidden at a secure location “up until recently.”
He continues, “An FBI agent, as I recall — I can’t remember exactly, but a very muscular, handsome, talented man … ”
Reynolds interrupts, “Yeah, I am totally, uh, passing away here.”
Cutting to the chase, he then asks, “What would you generally say the price of an object like this would be?”
“If we could clear up the complications of how you acquired it, this could sell for over $100 million at auction,” Mason asserts.
Reynolds plays stunned: “$100 million, though? Wow.” Adds Mason, “I bet there’s a lot of upside.”
But the faux antique’s appraisal wouldn’t be enough to cover the $200 million that Netflix spent to make “Red Notice,” now officially the streaming studio’s most expensive movie to date — neve rmind a paltry 43% of positive reviews from top critics it’s received, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
It was worth it for the “Antiques Roadshow” bit.
