Actor Ryan Reynolds has appeared on the US version of The Antiques Roadshow to sell the Cleopatra egg from his new Netflix crime caper Red Notice. You can watch the hilarious sketch below:
He posted the skit on his Instagram channel this afternoon to promote the new film.
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Reynolds stars alongside Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and Gal Gadot in Red Notice, which clinched the record for Netflix's biggest ever opening day for a film.
Ryan, 45, wrote in the caption: "The #RedNotice scene I wish I'd shot."
Reynolds' 39.8 million followers were loving the scene.
One commented: "You are something else, a laugh a minute!"
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Another said: "I'd watch the s*** out of a weekly show just about this!"
This new promotional video opens with Ryan sitting opposite Antiques Roadshow host Lark E. Mason on either side of a table.
Mason asks Ryan to tell him about the golden egg in front of them.
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"Yes. It's an egg," Ryan says.
Lark assumes Ryan (named Nolan Booth in the video, his character from Red Notice) received the egg the way most guests on the show acquire their items - through a relative.
He asks: "And what's its family history?"
Ryan says: "Well, no. This is not a family heirloom.
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"My family disowned me years ago. They don't like me.
"But this is more of an heirloom that my good friend at the museum lent me."
Ryan then hesitates before blurting out that his friend is, in fact, unaware that he lent the golden egg to him. Queue laughter.
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Lark continues by saying the egg is one of three eggs commissioned by Egyptian queen Cleopatra at the end of her life in 30 B.C..
Two eggs were held in public collections and one went missing during WWII.
Lark says: "German soldiers had taken it to a secure hideaway. And there it remained up until recently."
The Cleopatra eggs from Red Notice are - by the way - completely fictional and invented by writer Rawson Marshall Thurber for the movie.
Ryan, finding the drawn-out details about the egg boring, interrupts.
All he cares about is the egg's cash value and asks Lark the big question.
Lark then puts an end to Ryan's anxiety by confirming its ludicrous value of over $100 million (assuming they could clear up the complications of selling a stolen egg).
Words: Charlie Metcalfe