Though Ryan Reynolds had his doubts about working with Alicia Keys in Joe Carnahan’s recently wrapped “Smokin’ Aces,” he says the singer has much stronger film chops than he expected.
“Going in you’re thinking, ‘Oh, God, this is going to be tough. Am I going to have to slow down so they can keep up?’ But that wasn’t the case at all,” he lets us know. “I’m surprised she hasn’t done a movie before because she’s so natural. She’s going to blow everybody away.”

The action comedy, which also includes Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle and Jeremy Piven, is “about a Mafia, Vegas-showman kind of guy who ends up in Tahoe and is about to become a witness in a federal case against the mob,” explains Reynolds. “I’m the FBI agent with Ray Liotta, who’s assigned to go get him and bring him back alive - but at the same time there are eight different assassins that are all converging on the same hotel suite in Tahoe.”