It’s all occurring! Celebs like Amy Poehler and Daniel Radcliffe gave their greatest followers simply what they needed to see amid the coronavirus pandemic by revisiting their most beloved characters.
Poehler, 48, reprised her position of Leslie Knope and was joined by Parks and Recreation forged members Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Adam Scott, Rob Lowe, Jim O’Inheritor and Retta for an all-new quarantine-inspired episode of the previous NBC sitcom. For the primary time because the collection led to 2015, followers acquired to fall again in love with the fictional civil servants — and take a glimpse at how the characters can be residing in the course of the pandemic.
When the present’s seventh and last season ended with a fast-forward to the long run, Scott, 47, by no means thought he would get the possibility to play Ben Wyatt once more.
“Leaping into the long run is a reunion-proof ending in a number of methods,” the Huge Little Lies actor advised Selection forward of the reunion episode on April 30. “However when Mike [Schur] despatched the e-mail, it simply, not less than in my thoughts, felt like, ‘After all.’ That is primarily the one circumstance that will name for a ‘Parks’ reunion, I feel: to assist folks out. It makes emotional sense, and artistic sense as properly.”
The Parks and Rec gang raised almost $three million for COVID-19 aid funds, teaming up with Feeding America and the Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being to assist these hit hardest by the pandemic. Whereas the NBC alums had been capable of present financial assist to folks in want, Radcliffe, 30, donned his wizard robes as soon as extra to make followers’ boredom and loneliness disappear.
Earlier this month, the Harry Potter star confirmed he can be returning to Hogwarts and lending his voice to a brand new digital e book membership. Radcliffe and different stars — together with Dakota Fanning and Stephen Fry — are taking turns studying chapters from the primary of J.Ok. Rowling’s seven novels, Harry Potter and the Thinker’s Stone/Sorcerer’s Stone.
“Every will likely be studying totally different sections of this iconic e book, with its themes of household, friendship, braveness and overcoming adversity, to households around the globe,” a press launch teased.
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