Josh Duhamel & Julianne Hough on Filming 'Safe Haven'

If you're in some kind of trouble, we can fix it. Katie. I love you. I'm not gonna let you go. There's no safer place for you than here with me. Your your character Alex seems like it's made for you. Like like he's just so nice, so sweet. Do you relate to him at all?

That was what we tried to do. That's my biggest thing with this character was that he was too nice, and he was too perfect, and he always did and said the right thing and and so we really tried to find the flaws in this guy, you know. Did he not deal with the death of his wife as well as he should have, and as a result, he and his kid are having issues, and, you know, there's a lot of things that we really talked about because I loved the story, but I didn't know if I could pull off this character because there was just I didn't know if there's anything to do. And so, you know, it was it was really fun. Sometimes the hardest characters to play are the ones that seem the simplest.

Could you leave this outside my house last night? It was just sitting in my shed. I see you walking every day. It's perfect for you. I appreciate it, but I just I can't take it. All right. Why won't you let him get to know you? I've had things happen to me in the past. Open up. Everything's waiting for you. Yes. You play Katie and she has a little bit of like a, you know, kind of like a tomboy vibe.

Yeah, a little bit, you know, she and when back in Boston her uh where she starts out in the movie. Um, it's a little bit more like sophisticated and proper. And then she realizes that I just I can't. I just gotta be me and relaxed and in the South, you know, this town Southport, North Carolina, it's hot and it's um, you know, she's doing a lot of walking and biking, so she's gotta be comfortable.

Now, you had met Julian before briefly.

I had met her at a at an event the year earlier that year, probably six months earlier. And I was really impressed by how sociable she was and how nice and sort of confident and open she was, and and when her name came up for this part, I really liked the idea. I knew that she didn't have a lot of experience, but there was something about her that was really right for the part.

I had met him a couple of times um with his wife actually. And um really really cool guy. And then doing the screen test and then actually shooting like just got to know him even more and just really, again, yeah, a good guy where you just feel safe and like nothing's weird and yeah.

Since you had to be in a bathing suit for a couple of the scenes in the movie, how do you eat fresh?

I ate pretty well. I eat pretty well in general, although I do like bad food too.

Like?

Like uh Pizza, hamburgers. Yeah, pizza, hamburger, little uh spicy chicken sandwiches. Okay. Um, it's just a matter of being smart about it. And I do like to eat healthy. I feel better when I'm eating healthy. I really enjoy eating crappy, but I don't ever feel as good. So I try to find the balance somewhere in between.

How do I eat fresh? Um, I don't know. I just I try to do fresh produce and fresh foods, um, nothing processed, and then I just had a cookie upstairs after I told you lie. Um, um, I don't know. It's all about balance cuz I I love food, but during the week, I try to stay pretty healthy, but weekends are I support it a little bit.

So, did anything happen on set that was really funny, any kind of funny moments?

There was a there was a case where we were shooting and looking out towards the water. These tourists were were watching us shoot the movie from their boat. But they were in the shot, and we couldn't get them to leave because, you know, water is public property. They don't have to move. Rick, the guy that plays the cop, my buddy in the movie, goes out dressed as a cop to the end of the dock, he pretends, excuse me, folks, uh if you don't mind, we're trying to shoot here, we're gonna have to have you move back. Please move your boat over there. Thank you very much. And they're like, oh, oh oh, they, you know, immediately left. And I was thinking, that is a brilliant idea. We everybody Anytime there's somebody in the shot in a movie, which happens all the time, just have somebody dressed up as a cop.

That is pretty genius. All right. Now, you're hosting the Kids' Choice Awards this year.

Mm. Bam. How do you think they're gonna slime me this year? I can't tell you. I'm not even sure they can tell me. But, you know, what they have planned is pretty pretty awesome. I mean, we've talked a little bit. Now, you know, this just happened this talking about last week, so I'm not really sure yet. We've talked about creatively what the ideas are, and the closer we get, the more specific we'll get about it, but it's it's uh really funny. You know, they knew that for whatever reason, they're the first ones that have really recognized what a moron I am. And and so, you know, now I'm up to the I have to be up to the I've I've read some of the stuff they want me to do. I'm like, okay. It's just a big goofball. You know what? Let's do it. And so there's a lot of really ridiculous stuff that that we're going to do and I'm I'm, you know, it's my it's my it's my forte.

Well, we're looking forward to seeing that. We're so excited you came through. Next time, get you on the pillow and uh

Get me on the pillow. Oh yeah. Oh, it's a pillow. Oh, it's a pillow.

so dreamy. Thank you so much, Zach.