Ryan Phillippe was on the Jimmy Kimmel show last night to promote his movie Stop Loss and the interview was pretty interesting. The more I see Phillippe the more respect I have for the guy, because he really seems down to earth. The best part of Phillippe’s segment on Kimmel was the spoof night vision sex video at the end, and you can skip to the bottom to see it now, but I wanted to include a little of his interview too

Ryan’s son Deacon was named after baseball player ancestor
Jimmy asked Ryan about his kids and he said they were doing great. He said that Ava, 8, was named after Ava Gardner, the woman who broke Frank Sinatra, because he’s a big Sinatra fan.

As for his son Deacon, 4^1/2, “I had an ancestor who pitched and won the first game of the first world series ever. He beat Cy Young… He was recently voted the best right handed pitcher in Pittsburgh Pirates history.”

Jimmy said: “Name was Deacon Phillippe of the Pittsburgh nationals.”

About soldiers’ response to “Stop Loss”
Ryan said “The film is really about the soliders… and what it’s like for them to come back home… the response we’ve gotten from the military has been incredible. They’ve all said thank you because it truly tells the soliders’ story. The sacrifice they make for us is far beyond anything any of us will ever really have to experience.”

He said the film is less about a political agenda and is more a human, heartfelt story.

That night vision faux sex tape video
And here comes the hysterical part. Kimmel said he had a video of Ryan that’s been on the Internet, and Ryan claimed it wasn’t him. The audience was roaring with laughter when they saw who Ryan was in bed with.

It was Kimmel’s older female security guard, Veatrice. These outrageous couplings are about to jump the shark, but not quite yet.

Here’s the whole interview: