Warning: this article contains spoilers aboutBad Boys: Ride or Die.
It’s okay if you call Dennis McDonald “Reggie.”
“My name is Reggie,” McDonald tellsEntertainment Weekly.
Dennis McDonald in ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’.Sony Pictures
All right, my name is Reggie, then.
Howard’s (Joe Pantoliano) reputation after being framed in a conspiracy linking them to cartel crimes.
“This is a blessing,” the actor says.
Martin Lawrence (L) and Will Smith in ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’.Frank Masi/Sony
“I had to get on real military mode,” he says.
So before I even went to military training, I was one step ahead of the curve."
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Will Smith (L) and Martin Lawrence in ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’.Frank Masi/Sony
I’m just doing that off of just me remembering the [moves].
That was intense."
And I’m like, ‘Oh s—, it’s fake.
Martin Lawrence (L) and Will Smith in ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’.Columbia Pictures /Courtesy Everett
That’s how real it looks."
The movie ends with a close-up of Reggie smiling, knowing he’s finally gotten the last laugh.
“That wasn’t in the script at all,” McDonald reveals about the grill sequence.
He had no idea that he was being brought back to film such a big moment either.
“But I had lines and everything, and it was the whole end of the movie.
They’re like, ‘Yeah, you end the whole movie.
It ends with your face.’
And I’m like, ‘Are you serious?’
I was just overwhelmed.”
“You never know, you might seeBad Boys 5and see Reggie a lot more.”
It’s also not something McDonald ever imagined was possible.
“So I called it, and I actually got the part like that.”
“I didn’t think it was going to be that big,” he says.
“I was just thinking it’s going to be a two-minute thing that people would forget about.
