The acting scion stars in the sci-fi thriller 'Brother Save Us.' Deacon Phillippe insists he wasn’t going to rely on his Hollywood genes — his parents are Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe — to make it in Hollywood. So much so that the 24-year-old aspiring musician and actor was intent on getting a college education and graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in May. The indie sci-fi thriller marks Phillippe’s feature film acting debut after appearing in two episodes of “Never Have I Ever” in 2022 and playing the younger brother of his dad’s character in flashback scenes in the Prime Video series “Motorheads.” “I acknowledge that I’m extremely lucky, but you know, at the same time, I hold myself to a standard,” Phillippe says.
A lot of people are going to assume things … All I can do is do my thing, and show that I want to work extremely, extremely hard.” In “Brother Save Us,” from first-time writer and director Jesse Behrenwald, Phillippe plays a farmer in a dystopian America who is trying to save his family farm and protect his younger brother (Thomas Murphy Molony) from a conglomerate replacing the human workforce with AI bots. Next up, Phillippe follows in his mother’s rom-com footsteps with a role in “Better Than the Movies,” Julie Hart’s Netflix adaptation of Lynn Painter’s novel about a high schooler obsessed with romantic comedies. I remember when I was a kid, I watched one of my dad’s first movies, ‘White Squall,’ and I was crying because they were bullying him in the movie.” He continues, “But as you get older, there’s something magical about watching your parents young and at your age.
I’m always in awe of their careers and all that they’ve done. That’s why I’m always leaning on them for advice, which is another thing I’m blessed to have.”Phillippe is currently working on a script with his best friend. It involves true stories from our lives,” he teases.
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