John Cho's teen son finally saw “Harold & Kumar” and only had one question for his dad

Cho's son was excited that his dad worked with a certain "Free Guy," let's say.

It took 16 years, but John Cho's son finally saw his dad's classic buddy stoner comedy Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. His reaction surprised his Dad.

"My 16 year old apparently saw it," Cho explained Wednesday on Today. "Apparently his takeaway was, so you have met Ryan Reynolds?" Cho repeated for emphasis: "You have met Ryan Reynolds?!" Hosts Al Roker, Sheinelle Jones, and Dylan Dreyer laughed along with Cho, who added, "Pretty good takeaway! Not a bad thing."

Cho starred in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle back in 2004 alongside Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris, and yes, briefly, Ryan Reynolds. The Deadpool & Wolverine star played a minor character simply credited as "Male Nurse" in a single, though memorable scene.

Roker asked Cho about his children's reactions to the film now that they're old enough to watch, but Cho had to correct him. "I had to ferry the daughter out of the house," he said of his 12-year-old daughter. "Not family friendly," Roker agreed.

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"It's hard to believe it's 20 years," Roker said of the first Harold and Kumar film, which launched John Cho's career into the stratosphere, bumping him from single episode roles in series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and ER to a starring role as Sulu in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek films.

Dreyer asked Cho if he "could ever revisit this character" of Harold, the investment banker, stoner, and best friend to Penn's Kumar, who embarked on surreal, often gross-out adventures together across three films and two shorts. "Could be," he responded. "I think it'd be fun to do it. It's a little bit of an early 2000s movie in a lot of ways, but I'd love to see if we could."

In a Rolling Stone 20th anniversary oral history of the film, Penn and producer Nathan Kahane gushed about Reynolds' involvement in the project. Penn recalled that in his final callback for a part in Reynolds' frat comedy National Lampoon's Van Wilder, "it was between me and a white dude in brownface for the part of an Indian exchange student," and Reynolds "was obviously rooting for me to get the job."

After Penn landed the part, Reynolds told him, "'When you get your first lead, let me know and I’ll play the supporting guy.' When Harold & Kumar happened and we were talking about cameos, I reached out to Ryan and he was immediately like, 'Yes, absolutely.'"

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Cho recently appeared in the heartfelt road trip dramedy Don't Make Me Go, Netflix's live-action Cowboy Beebop series, and he'll soon star opposite Katherine Waterson in the sequel to 2022's smash horror hit M3GAN.

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