Go away it to town of Philadelphia to have Hollywood collide with Washington, D.C.
Former President Joe Biden went for breakfast Monday at Parc restaurant in Rittenhouse Sq., however did so simply because the forged and crew of Amazon Prime Video’s hit motion sequence “Reacher” had been filming — to the welcome shock of star Alan Ritchson.
The actor, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, chronicled the assembly Tuesday on Instagram. Alongside clips and photographs set to Giulio Cercato’s “Wow,” he joked within the caption: “So our Reacher set got in the way of these legends.”
The previous president’s spouse, Jill Biden, and youthful son, Hunter Biden, had been additionally in attendance.
“Was a privilege and honor to meet the Biden family,” Ritchson wrote on Instagram. “They couldn’t have been more lovely. Kind, joyful, gracious and present. We chatted briefly about simple stuff, like string theory and quantum entanglement.”
“Then Joe beat me at arm wrestling,” he joked. “All in a day’s work.”
Biden’s arrival was unwittingly captured by native photographer Hugh E. Dillon, who occurred to be recording the “Reacher” crew filming a police chase on the time. He instructed CBS Information it felt “bizarre” that “both things were happening at the same time.”
Dillon recalled a black SUV pulled up and folks he assumed had been actors obtained out, telling CBS Information he thought it was a part of a scene being filmed — even when someone yelled, “We love you, Joe, we love you!”
Dillon ultimately realized what had transpired.
“Joe Biden decided he needed some breakfast at Parc Rittenhouse,” he instructed the outlet.
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Within the footage Ritchson shared Tuesday, the actor chats with the previous president inside Parc, earlier than Hunter Biden places his arm across the actor’s shoulders. The three males posed for a photograph collectively that marked the top of the Instagram publish.
A consultant for Biden instructed “Entertainment Weekly” that the meetup wasn’t deliberate.
Ritchson was absolutely glad it was Biden and never the present president who strolled onto his set, as he known as Trump “a rapist and a con man” final 12 months and condemned Christians who supported him. Conservatives had been irate on the remarks, with some even vowing to boycott “Reacher.”
Biden’s outing comes a few month after he revealed he had been identified with prostate most cancers.
