Christina Applegate: 'Drake is a handsome, big sweetheart'

theGRIO VIDEO - Christina Applegate opens up about filming a scene from 'Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues' with the rapper Drake, and says that...

Christina Applegate reprises her role as the strong and determined newswoman Veronica Corningstone in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.

The film features a slew of cameos from Hollywood stars including Tina Fey, Sasha Baron Cohen, Will Smith, Liam Neeson, Kanye West and Drake.

In an interview with theGrio, Applegate opens up about a scene she shot with Drake where he tries to hit on her while she’s walking down the street.

“He’s a handsome kid, that guy. He’s a sweetheart. Drake is a big sweetheart,” she said.

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“Originally Veronica does turn back and wink at him. I guess they didn’t want to have that element of it to make me seem like that woman,” Applegate revealed. “We did a couple of different versions. We did one where I turn back to him and winked at him and then the version that we now have, which is me being offended by it.”

The Married with Children star also discusses a musical scene that was deleted from the final cut of Anchorman 2.

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, is now playing in theaters  nationwide.

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