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Entertainment July 22, 2017
He has more than just a pair of pretty blue eyes.
Stud-muffin Robbie Amell is not your typical Hollywood heartthrob. He has played the pretty boy, but now he’s moving into more serious roles and producing films as well.
Here are five facts you didn’t know about Robbie Amell.
Amell told Just Jared that working with this company at such a young age proved to be a pressure-filled experience.
“I worked for a fire equipment replacement company when I was way too young to be working for an actual business,” he said. “We replaced all of the fire alarms, or a fire alarm system, in a huge stable at a horse race track. The scariest thing about it, when you’re walking through the stables, you have to stay on one side of the horses because they’re not regular horses, they’re thoroughbreds.”
Italia Ricci and Robbie Amell were engaged in 2014 and married two years later on Oct. 15, 2016.
The couple celebrated their love with a traditional Italian ceremony at the Cathedral of Saint Vibiana. Ricci donned a strapless James Clifford gown that she told Us Weekly was quite heavy. It was 35 pounds!
Then after the ceremony, the couple’s first dance was to “Never Stop” by Safety Suit. “I heard it on Pandora once and loved it,” Ricci said. “I played it for him and he loved it also, so we decided that was going to be our song. It was perfect, and the words are just so sweet and so meaningful. We cut it off early. I just looked at the DJ and sort of gave him the ‘Alright, we’re done here,’ because we were just going to start crying.”
Amell told Screenrant that he wasn’t attracted to the role at first since he thought the character was going to be a cliche.
“To be honest with you, I read the first 30 pages and I put the script down, and I almost didn’t pick it back up, because the character was that stereotypical douchebag. I know that guy [and] I grew up with that guy in high school. I didn’t want to do that,” he said.
But, Ricci swooped in to save the day and convinced him to read the rest of the script. He learned that his character did have a heart, he was just young and needed direction.
“The DUFF” was released in 2015 and it centered around a girl who had been dubbed as the designated ugly friend of the “pretty girl” group.
Cousins Robbie Amell and Stephen Amell, “Arrow” star, came together to produce their original short sci-fi flick entitled, “Code 8.” The film is only 10 minutes long, but that was enough to gain a fan following.
In fact, “Code 8” audiences loved the film so much, they started a campaign held on the Indiegogo website. Around 20,201 backers funded the film and together they raised around $1.7 million dollars! This budget exceeded their original amount of $200,000.
According to Variety, Robbie Amell and Stephen Amell expressed their excitement by saying, “We’re thrilled to be starting production with such an extraordinary cast and creative team led by Jeff, and excited to bring a full-length ‘Code 8’ to the world.”
Long story short? Robbie Amell shows that you can be both incredibly good looking and talented.
