Supportive exes! Josh Duhamel revealed how his ex-wife, Fergie, impressed him to jot down, direct and star in his new comedy, Buddy Video games.
“This film goes again about 4 years, I feel, is after I first began writing it,” Duhamel, 48, stated on the Today present on Friday, November 27. “And she or he was the one who stated, ‘You recognize what? You may direct this. You are able to do this.’”
The Safe Haven actor determined to provide Fergie, 45, some love within the film itself after she inspired him to go for it early on within the filmmaking course of.
Josh Duhamel and Fergie in 2015. Shutterstock
“Once we have been doing the ultimate credit, I am going, ‘You recognize what? I gotta give Ferg slightly shoutout’ as a result of she was any person who informed me to go do it,” he stated. “As a result of actually, I wasn’t positive if I might.”
Earlier this month, Duhamel teased the Buddy Video games premiere and gushed about his ardour undertaking.
“Girls & Gents, it’s been a very long time coming however the official countdown to BUDDY GAMES has begun!!” he wrote via Instagram in November. “Get able to giggle your asses off (I feel all of us want slightly extra of that nowadays).”
The Transformers actor and “Massive Women Don’t Cry” singer separated in September 2017 after eight years of marriage. Fergie, nevertheless, didn’t file for divorce till Might 2019. The pair’s divorce was finalized in November of that 12 months.
“We determined to separate as a pair earlier this 12 months,” the duo informed Us Weekly in a press release after their break up announcement. “To offer our household the very best alternative to regulate, we needed to maintain this a non-public matter earlier than sharing it with the general public. We’re and can all the time be united in our help of one another and our household.”
The exes share 7-year-old son Axl, whom they welcomed in 2013.
Duhamel has since been linked to Audra Mari, whom he was noticed with in Might 2019 whereas out in Malibu. The pair was photographed kissing at a Toronto airport in December of that 12 months and later reunited for a vacation get together the identical month.
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