Benjamin Bratt’s Advice on Falling in Love and Getting Married Is So Sweet

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in Miss Congeniality. He’s had plenty of romantic onscreen moments since then, but the now 60-year-old actor admits that even he was hesitant about stepping back into a traditional rom-com role with .Bratt plays Will, a successful businessman whose son R.J. (Sean Teale) is about to get married to Emma (Miranda Cosgrove).

The twist is that when Will arrives at the destination wedding in Phuket, Thailand, he learns that Emma’s mom is none other than Lana (Brooke Shields), a woman he was rather serious with back in college.Together, they awkwardly get reacquainted and learn that if they don’t get better at communicating, they’re bound to make the same mistakes they did as wildly-in-love college students.“I had known Brooke, but I had never worked with her,” Bratt tells Glamour. “I had always counted her as a .

She’s really adept at physical comedy…and very connected, very humble, very maternal. All those things proved to be true and the perfect balance, in hindsight, to really fulfill the role.”In other words, he needn’t have worried about stepping back into the rom-com world.

He and Shields shine together. And for those who have seen Bratt in more darker roles lately, it’s nice to see him taking on something perfect for the summer rom-com season.But perhaps most refreshing is to hear Benjamin Bratt talk about his own love story, with his wife of 22 years, Talisa Soto.