The versatile John Krasinski is the creator of a peculiar “prank” on Ryan Reynolds that is part of the advertising campaign for ‘IF’, the film about imaginary friends that will be released in 2024. If you are fans of ‘The Office’, you will recognize the moment what is happening in this peculiar way of promoting his next feature film.
John Krasinski recycles a joke from ‘The Office’ to promote ‘IF’
The video clip in question has been published by Ryan Reynolds himself on his social networks as X, and this advertisement will also be broadcast during Super Bowl LVIII on February 12, 2024.
The clip in question shows a supposed making of the film ‘IF’ with a “very changed” John Krasinski, as Reynolds points out. And, as happened in the third episode of the ninth season of ‘The Office’, actor Randall Park “replaces” Krasinski, the joke consisting of gaslighting the target of the mockery by making him believe that Krasinski or his character have always been Asian.
This joke at the time was one of the funniest in the series ‘The Office’ in the endless escalation of Jim Halpert’s jokes towards his co-worker Dwight Schrute. Dwight’s disbelief reached historic heights at how elaborate the prank was, even going so far as to take a photo showing “Jim” and Pam with their Asian children.
Although the role of Jim Halpert in the North American version of ‘The Office’ is one of Krasinski’s most recognizable roles, the actor has by no means pigeonholed himself into the comedy genre. We have recently seen him directing and starring in the horror film ‘A Quiet Place’ (2018), in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a variant of Reed Richards in ‘Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness’ (2022) or as Jack Ryan in the eponymous spy thriller from Prime Video, released in 2018 and which ended with its fourth season in 2023.
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One of John Krasinski’s most recently critically acclaimed roles has been that of Jack Ryan in the Prime Video series of the same name.
Regarding ‘IF’, the film tells the story of a girl who has the ability to see imaginary friends who have been abandoned by the children they helped. It stars John Krasinski, Ryan Reynolds and Cailey Fleming. The name of the film itself is a play on words, since they are the acronym for “imaginary friends” and “if” by itself means “if”, as if this conditional conjunction proposed us to let fly. our imagination. This film will be released on May 17, 2024.