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🗓️ 13 October 2025
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David Henrie is an American actor, writer, and director best known for playing Justin Russo on Disney Channel’s hit series Wizards of Waverly Place alongside Selena Gomez. David began acting at a young age, landing roles in shows like How I Met Your Mother, That’s So Raven, and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody before becoming one of Disney’s most recognizable stars.
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Episode 379
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| 0:00.0 | You can kind of just be kids, like me, the Jonas brothers, Selena, Miley, at that time, like... I feel good about it, or do I? Yes, you do. Right. Favorite Wizards of Waverly Place spell. Edgbano, U-2, sis. What's it like when you and Selena get back on camera together? I remember the first time we got back on camera. Right before we went into the scene, her and I looked at each other, Adam Sandler and Kevin James |
| 0:23.0 | are awesome guys. I've known Kevin for a very long time. What's it like for you to reopen the chapter of Justin Rousseau all these years later? Did you think that he would ever continue to live on and have a story? No, you don't think that when you're doing it. You're just doing it. you're enjoying it and it's, it's, it's, you're loving every second of it. But when you're doing it, you're never thinking, man, is this going to come around again one day? What's going to happen? But then the show ends and years go by and you start hearing about reboots of other things and whatnot. And you get a little curious. But for me, it was just more something |
| 0:55.9 | that Celine and I would just joke around about from time to time. We just get together, hang out |
| 1:00.5 | at my house, her and my wife became good friends. And we'd just be sitting chilling and talking |
| 1:05.0 | about what our characters would be up to present day. And that began to get serious. That started to |
| 1:09.6 | like snowball into, hey, like, this is like, we're talking about a real thing here. Like, this is actually really cool and intriguing what we're talking about. We should just do what we're doing now over dinner with Disney and see what they think. And so I'm oversimplifying it. There was a lot more to it. But that was kind of what we did, like got together, joked around about what our characters would be doing. And that led to, um, you know, where we are today in our second season coming out. Did this chatter begin in the past two, three years? No, we, we always talked about the show. I mean, we're, it was, it was, it was great memories for her and I. For her, it was really formative. It was like her high school or college experience, you know. For me, too, we were both so young. And that time in our life was so formational and so foundational for the rest of our careers that we just look back on it so fondly. You know, it's like if you get together with a college buddy or a high school buddy and you talk about the good old times. |
| 2:02.7 | It was that for us. |
| 2:04.0 | It was a really good time. |
| 2:06.0 | And like any family, you have your ups, you have your downs. |
| 2:08.8 | We went through every emotional experience you could go through while making that show. |
| 2:13.1 | So we just have this bond. |
| 2:14.8 | And anytime we get together, conversation would just find its way back to the show. |
| 2:20.6 | So, you know, it just all kind of came together organically. |
| 2:24.0 | Nothing was forced. |
| 2:24.9 | We never, when we were talking, thought we're going to make a show about this. |
| 2:27.5 | We're just joking around. |
| 2:28.5 | And it just started to get good. |
| 2:30.3 | When does the reality start to set in that, oh, this is a possibility. |
| 2:34.3 | Disney's intrigued. |
| 2:35.6 | We can make this happen. |
| 2:37.2 | I mean. |
| 2:38.3 | Because this is so cool. |
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