the Bass Player, tellsEntertainment Weekly.
“I don’t know if you could because it’s so light.
Embry doesn’t think there would even be a reason to revive it today.
Steve Zahn, Tom Everett Scott, Johnathon Schaech, Liv Tyler, Ethan Embry, ‘That Thing You Do!'.Everett
“Why would you want to?”
“Music isn’t the same.
Culturally, we’re not the same.
Tom Hanks, Tom Everett Scott, Steve Zahn, Johnathon Schaech, Ethan Embry, ‘That Thing You Do!'.20th Century Studios/Everette Collection
He even has an idea for a potential spinoff that would involve both his and Embry’s characters.
“I keep going back to The Herdsmen,” he adds.
“Jimmy had a band called The Herdsmen, and I think that T.B.
Johnathon Schaech and Ethan Embry, ‘Blue Ridge: The Series’.INSP
Player probably was part of that.”
That gives Embry an idea of his own.
“It’d be really funny to see these guys in the ’90s,” Embry says.
“What would they look like now?”
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“When it opened up in the theaters, it wasn’t considered a success,” Embry says.
That movie means so much to so many people, but it was a surprise to me.”
at the Roxy Theater in Los Angeles.
“Donnie Wahlberg said that we could open for him,” Schaech says.
“That’s why I got to meet Timberlake,” Embry remembers.
Once the actors realized, however belatedly, how popular the movie became, they couldn’t escape it.
“That Thing You Do!”
“I would love to see it, to be honest.
I would love to see what they do with it.
I still have it on video.”
When asked if he’s being serious, he laughs.
The music is what brought the cast together in the first place.
“Zahn could play guitar,” Schaech says.
“I was really young, and Johnathon looked out for me,” he says.
“Which is nothing against the other two dudes, but I never felt that from them.
Johnathon kept my feet on the ground.”
“I don’t know how Johnathon does it,” he adds.
“I’m absolutely jealous.”
“You look just as great,” Schaech tells him.
“You’re in great shape, too, buddy.”
“That’s the only qualifier that I need, and I will show up.”
“You couldn’t take your eyes off him.
FilmingBlue Ridge: The Seriestogether was a stark contrast to their first time working together onThat Thing You Do!
mainly because of the budget.
“We were surrounded by it, which really does paint a different experience.”
“But ever since then, I’ve never had that experience again.”
They might not be put up in first-class hotels, all expenses paid, anymore like Jimmy and T.B.
in their heyday, but reuniting again, they’ve at least proved they’re not one-hit Wonders.
