00:00I left my family to come here and be here on this date.
00:04My name is Willa Bennett.
00:05And today, I'm going on a blind date.
00:08I really hope I fall in love.
00:10It is literally about time.
00:11Let me tell you something.
00:12It never gets easier.
00:15All right, let's rock, guys.
00:18Hello.
00:19Hey.
00:20How are we?
00:21Have we met before?
00:23I don't think so.
00:24Do you live in New York or LA?
00:26Los Angeles.
00:27Oh, really?
00:28Where?
00:29By the ocean.
00:30Malibu?
00:30Close.
00:32Santa Monica?
00:33In between.
00:34Unfortunately, I don't know geography like that.
00:37Are you a singer?
00:39No.
00:40Actor?
00:40Yes.
00:41What are you promoting right now?
00:43A film.
00:45Have I seen it yet?
00:46No, but you're going to love it.
00:48Is it a love story?
00:49Definitely love in the story.
00:50Name three of your co-stars in it.
00:52Am I supposed to give all this information away?
00:55OK.
00:55All right, ready?
00:56We're going to go with Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan.
01:00OK.
01:01And Julia Butters.
01:02OK, well, you're obviously Chad Michael Murray.
01:05OK, hot.
01:06I was trying not to give anything away.
01:07That was really good.
01:08That was the quickest I've ever guessed.
01:10You're really hot in person.
01:12Pot calling kettle black here.
01:14Wait, say that louder.
01:15I don't know if they caught that.
01:16I said, boy, is she cute.
01:18Not to be weird, but you were on my bedroom wall growing up.
01:21No.
01:22Is that true?
01:23Yeah.
01:23Oh.
01:24So tell me, Freak Your Friday.
01:25I assume that's the movie.
01:27It is Freak Your Friday.
01:28Who do you make out with in it?
01:29That I can't tell you.
01:30What?
01:31I can't tell you who I'm going to make.
01:32It's our date.
01:33Well.
01:33So you're like the type to lie on the first date.
01:35No, no, no.
01:36I just don't want to make you jealous.
01:38Because it's a good kiss.
01:39Aren't they all when they're on screen?
01:40That's not true.
01:42You've never had a bad kiss?
01:43See, a gentleman doesn't kiss and tell.
01:45I kiss and tell all the time.
01:46When was the last time you've been on a first date?
01:48My last first date was with my wife.
01:51You're married?
01:51I'm married.
01:52What the heck?
01:53When were you going to tell me that, bro?
01:55Does she know you're on a date with me right now?
01:57She knows now if she's watching this.
01:59So you're really two-timing both of us.
02:01You're that kind of guy.
02:02This is the first time hearing about this.
02:04How did you guys meet?
02:05On a film set, but we never dated.
02:07We didn't really talk to each other on the film set.
02:08And then you reunited later.
02:09I don't even know if I've ever told the story.
02:11We finished filming, and I didn't want to step on any toes.
02:15I'm just not that guy.
02:16So she was in a relationship.
02:17You were single.
02:17She was.
02:18That's kind of a baller move.
02:19I couldn't get her off my mind.
02:20Aw.
02:21And so I just walked over, and I said, when your relationship ends,
02:24you know, because it will.
02:25Give me a first shot of the title.
02:27That's it.
02:27And I just left that little nugget and moved on.
02:30And I waited for a few months, and then the phone rang.
02:33It actually rang.
02:34It was a phone call?
02:35It was a phone call.
02:36That is so romantic.
02:37I wish someone would call me.
02:38It's going to happen.
02:39You're going to call me tonight?
02:40You have time.
02:40You have plenty of time.
02:43OK, this is from Old Cosmos.
02:45Oh, gosh.
02:461982.
02:46October 1982.
02:47Wow.
02:48Were you born yet?
02:48You can read.
02:49No, of course not.
02:50All right.
02:51This is first date advice.
02:52Let's see how it aged.
02:53Do you prefer to live by yourself or have roommates?
02:56Uh, by.
02:57Why are you acting like that's the hardest question you've ever
02:59been asked?
03:00OK, well, because we're asking Chad now.
03:02Chad's got roommates.
03:03You have roommates?
03:04It's my wife and my kids.
03:05We're roommates.
03:06Oh, you would say you're a dad.
03:07I mean, hardcore.
03:08I would say you're a dad.
03:09Would you say you're daddy?
03:11I think it's pronounced zaddy, but.
03:13Could I call you daddy?
03:14Let's go for it.
03:15But no, I don't.
03:16Hey, daddy.
03:16Wait, did you just bring your kids to the premiere?
03:18I swore I saw that on TikTok.
03:20So this was the first time we've ever involved with the children in anything.
03:24I figured if there was a first time ever that this was the perfect premiere, Freakier Friday.
03:28And they loved it.
03:29Is that the moment that they realize, shit, daddy's really famous?
03:32We don't teach that at home.
03:34They understand the world that they've grown up in, but we don't give it any weight.
03:38When they were younger and my son first realized, we were at a beach.
03:41We were in Puerto Rico.
03:43I believe you should always, whenever you have the opportunity, photos, autographs.
03:47I get to make someone happy.
03:48It's like, what a blessing that is to be able to do that.
03:51My son learned the demographic.
03:52So we were at the beach, a bunch of younger girls in bikinis.
03:55My son took it upon himself to go find the girls and say, hey, my dad is Chad Michael Murray.
04:02Do you want a photo?
04:04No.
04:05Boy.
04:06Son.
04:07And that's when we had a long walk home and we discussed that part of it.
04:11Would you be mad if I did that?
04:13You know, second date on a beach.
04:15I'm in a bikini.
04:16I'm like, come over.
04:17My husband's Chad Michael Murray.
04:19It would seem like you were inviting other people into the relationship very soon.
04:22It's too much.
04:23If you're alone at a bar, are you chatting up the person next to you or reading solo?
04:28Who's next to me?
04:29Me.
04:30Are you next to me?
04:31I'm chatting, yeah.
04:32What's your line?
04:33I don't do lines.
04:34I introduce myself with a, hi, I'm Chad.
04:35Are you a cuddler or a roll to the cold side of the bed kind of person?
04:39I love a good cuddle.
04:41But if it's like sleeping hours right around, you know, midnight, I'm in there.
04:46It's not sleeping hours.
04:47Cuddle.
04:48You're like, cuddle, holding tight.
04:50There's this spot right here on my chest.
04:52Aw.
04:53It's a sleep factory.
04:54Anyone that lays there.
04:55All my kids, my wife, boom, done.
04:57Do you believe in me time versus we time?
05:00I'm obsessed with Cosmo.
05:01I like we time.
05:02Let's do we time.
05:03If there's a leak at home, are you calling someone or are you fixing it yourself?
05:08Like hands and knees, really in there.
05:11A lot of times I'm in there.
05:13You're in there.
05:14I usually like to get in there.
05:15What about you?
05:16Oh, I'm calling someone.
05:17You're calling someone?
05:18Absolutely.
05:19No question about it.
05:20Depends on how big the leak is.
05:21I'll be texting you.
05:22Which celeb would you play in the rom-com version of your life?
05:26And who plays me?
05:27All right.
05:28Well, you're going to be Anne Hathaway.
05:29Oh my God.
05:30I'm Anne Hathaway.
05:31Yeah.
05:32Who am I?
05:33If one of those dudes from K-pop Demon Hunters were blonde.
05:38You think?
05:39I don't know.
05:40Have you ever kissed Anne Hathaway in a movie?
05:43No, but we should make that happen.
05:44That would make so much sense.
05:46Netflix, you should be in the Devil Wears Prada.
05:49Yeah.
05:50I'm magazine editor.
05:51I'm Anne Hathaway.
05:52There you go.
05:53And you are my very supportive boyfriend.
05:57And now for dessert, we have Cosmo reader questions, which I've never seen before.
06:02And chocolate cake.
06:03Uh-oh.
06:04How does it feel to be so many people's first crush?
06:07I just go with the flow.
06:09And if I have a moment to make someone happy, boom, I'm in.
06:13I don't think much about it outside of that.
06:15What's one piece of romantic advice you would give your 21-year-old self?
06:18If I'm going to give my 21-year-old self any advice about romance, it's you are too young to be in a romantic relationship.
06:27So I'm too young for you?
06:28You're 30, turning 31.
06:30We're good.
06:31Okay, good memory.
06:32Was dating hard around a Cinderella story when I had a crush on you?
06:36Incredibly hard.
06:37I kept trying to be something that I really wasn't.
06:40I had far more insecurities than you could imagine.
06:43You don't want to smile because you don't like your teeth, but you know you're supposed to come across as such and such person.
06:49I think that that's what makes dating hard at that age.
06:51I admit you had real feelings for Hilary Doe.
06:53I love Hilary.
06:54I still love Hilary today.
06:55Incredible on-screen romance.
06:56What's the most awkward thing someone's ever said to you on a date?
06:59I was worried I wasn't going to be able to afford the dinner, so I called the credit card company, but I didn't like go somewhere else to do it.
07:06I did it like right there at the table.
07:09Okay, this one has a lot of stuff that I don't understand, so it has nothing to do with me.
07:12If you had to speak like Lucas Scott, Edgar Evernever, or Tristan Dugray, which would you choose?
07:19And do you think I should do a specific line from one of them?
07:22Out of those three, you know who would be on an inappropriate date?
07:25It would probably be Tristan Dugray.
07:26Okay, give me a line.
07:27Tristan would probably say, hey, Mary.
07:30Oh, your name's not Mary?
07:31I want it to be Mary.
07:32So how about this?
07:33You call me Tristan, I'll call you Mary.
07:36Hey, Mary.
07:37Yeah, there you go.
07:38I wish your name was Mary.
07:39No, you can call me whatever you want.
07:41Whatever I want.
07:42I can call you Chatty.
07:43You can call me Chatty.
07:44Chatty Daddy.
07:45See, that wouldn't be original because I've already heard it.
07:47What about Daddy?
07:48Put a Z there and we'll make that work.
07:50How quickly have you said I love you in a relationship?
07:52If we want to get real, I think there's lust and there's love.
07:55And I think you can lust after someone very easily and catch feels.
08:00Love, I truly think is far bigger than most of us can ever imagine.
08:06She could have six arms and 25 legs and I wouldn't care.
08:10Like I genuinely wouldn't care.
08:11You love her.
08:12Yeah.
08:13Okay, who has more Riz?
08:14You or Austin Ames?
08:15Austin.
08:16Really?
08:17Yeah.
08:18I feel like you got Riz.
08:19You're mouth to God's ears.
08:21I appreciate it.
08:22But I think Austin is good.
08:23What's like one move that you think would actually work in real life that he does?
08:25Throwing a touchdown is pretty good.
08:27Walking off the field, just owning it.
08:29That'll do.
08:30Yeah, I've done that before.
08:31See?
08:32Yeah.
08:33Always works.
08:34As a publicity stunt.
08:35No.
08:36Hmm.
08:37Do people really do this?
08:40I don't buy that.
08:41I don't buy that.
08:42Do people really do that?
08:44Oh crap, I'm a cracker.
08:47On a scale of one to Lucas Scott with the tortured monologue.
08:50You've just been waiting.
08:52Waiting to push me away.
08:53How dramatic are you in real life?
08:55Used to be awesomely dramatic.
09:00And now, no.
09:01Really?
09:02No.
09:03I just float.
09:04What's one thing your wife doesn't know about you?
09:06Probably that I secretly want more kids.
09:08How many are we talking?
09:09We're talking like nine?
09:10Or are we talking like...
09:11I think four kids would be awesome.
09:12However, it's probably not a good idea.
09:14This last one is really...
09:15Oof.
09:16She's a wild card.
09:17She's one.
09:18And she's already your boss.
09:19She's the baby boss.
09:20If she was here right now, however, they got trapped in Miami.
09:23So they're on their way here now.
09:24Oh.
09:25Yeah, we almost weren't here.
09:26It was very sad.
09:27You're gonna stand me up?
09:28No.
09:29That's why I'm here.
09:30I left my family to come here and be here on this date.
09:34Can you say that again for people in the back?
09:37You left your family for me?
09:39Well, I wouldn't say that in so few words.
09:41But, you know, they're on a plane following soon.
09:44Yeah.
09:45Can't wait to meet my polyfuel.
09:46Would you go on another blind date with me, sir?
09:49Oh, Willa.
09:51Oh, Willa.
09:53I'm not sure.
09:54Waiter always comes at the worst time.
09:55You called him.
09:56Yeah, I did.
09:57Because you're trying to get out.
09:58I gotta go.
09:59Where are you going?
10:00I'm gonna go hang out with my family.
10:01And my baby's gonna go run the roost.
10:02And she'll teach you a thing or two.
10:03Thanks, crush.
10:04You're even better in real life.
10:05Poster going back up when I get home.
10:06Come on, Willa.
10:07What poster was it?
10:08It's you holding Hilary Duff, obviously.
10:09Come on.
10:10Oh, Cinderella story poster.
10:11Yeah, of course.
10:12Huge for my sexuality.
10:13It better be here.
10:14It's here.
10:15Cool.
10:16I need to sign that.
10:17Cool.
10:18I need to sign that.
10:19You're not going to go.
10:20And I'm not going back.
10:21I'm not going back up when I get home.
10:22Oh, I love you.
10:23I'm not going back up when I get home.
10:24Come on, Willa.
10:25What poster was it?
10:26It's you holding Hilary Duff, obviously.
10:27Come on.
10:28Oh, Cinderella story poster.
10:29Yeah, of course.
10:30Huge for my sexuality.
10:31It better be here.
10:32It's here.
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