The actor opens up on coming to terms with being Bryan MacKenzie, the jobs he missed out on, and his Olivia Pope & Associates superfan.
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It's been 22 years since George Newbern first stepped into the role of Bryan MacKenzie, the perfect groom-to-be to Steve Martin's harried George Banks in the beloved Father of the Bride films.
But you'd think the '90s movies were still at the top of the box office judging from the reactions Newbern gets from fans (and co-stars) on a daily basis. "Because the movie was so good, it just kept playing and playing, so it touched many generations and became something of a right of passage for girls. So I accept that I will always be, to them, that guy," he told BuzzFeed over coffee at a Mediterranean restaurant in Los Angeles.
But it took a while for the now-49-year-old actor to truly embrace his place in pop-culture history, and remembering some advice from Superman himself really helped him do so. "I did a movie with Christopher Reeve when I first came to L.A. called Switching Channels," Newbern recalled. "I asked him if it was weird to be Superman. He said, 'You know, George, I've fought against this whole Superman thing, but one day I realized, Hey, I'm Superman.' So, at some point, I just started saying, Good for me, I'm Bryan MacKenzie."
Even some of Newbern's new Scandal co-stars can't help but see him as the adorably nerdy independent communications consultant who wed Annie Banks (Kimberly Williams) in the picturesque on-screen ceremony. "Katie Lowes talks about it all the time," he said. "Katie's 20 years younger than me and I remember during our first make-out scene, she kept saying, 'What are we doing?!?'"
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