How Ryan Phillippe’s Daughter Ava Helped Prepare Him for Playing a Dad: ‘I Obviously Understand Teenage Girls’
For Ryan Phillippe, playing a dad in his new thriller Wish Upon didn’t take too much research.
In the film, he plays the father of 17-year-old Clare Shannon — and in real life, the actor has a 17-year old daughter of his own, Ava Elizabeth, with ex-wife Reese Witherspoon.
“Joey King, who plays my daughter, is the same age as my daughter in real life,” Phillippe, 42, tells People. “So she and I could connect very easily because I obviously understand teenage girls.”
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In the film, he plays the father of 17-year-old Clare Shannon — and in real life, the actor has a 17-year old daughter of his own, Ava Elizabeth, with ex-wife Reese Witherspoon.
“Joey King, who plays my daughter, is the same age as my daughter in real life,” Phillippe, 42, tells People. “So she and I could connect very easily because I obviously understand teenage girls.”
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- 7/12/2017
- by Mia McNiece
- PEOPLE.com
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