Akerman opened up about working on the 2009 romantic comedy in a video interview with TheSkimm<\/a>. In the movie, which starred Sandra Bullock<\/a> as high-powered editor Margaret Tate and Ryan Reynolds<\/a> as her assistant Andrew Paxton, White played Andrew\u2019s grandmother while Akerman played his ex-girlfriend.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Proposal was wonderful,\u201d Akerman, 47, said. \u201cBetty White was a legend. She still is a legend.\u201d<\/p>\n RGR Collection \/ Alamy<\/p>\n From left: Malin Akerman, Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, Director Anne Fletcher, Mary Steenburgen and Betty White on the set of ‘The Proposal’<\/p>\n And while Akerman was worried about working with The Golden Girls<\/a> star, it was White, who died in 2021 just days before her 100th birthday, who put her at ease.<\/p>\n \u201cWalking into the hair and makeup trailer that first day, I was trying to be on my best behavior,\u201d The Comeback<\/a> star remembered. \u201cAnd within like five minutes, the amount of foul words coming out of that woman\u2019s mouth just put everyone at ease.\u201d<\/p>\n Akerman said of White, She was one of the loveliest humans ever. And funny as f—, as she would have said herself.\u201d<\/p>\n Akerman wasn\u2019t the only person who loved White\u2019s R-rated antics. In Jan. 2021, The Proposal star Ryan Reynolds honored White\u2019s 99th birthday<\/a> with a foul-mouthed video they made behind-the-scenes of the film. In the clip, White jokes about hating Reynolds. When he ignores her request to get a cup of coffee, she tells him, “When Betty White says she wants a cup of coffee, you f—ing get her a cup of coffee. You ab-crunching jackass.”<\/p>\n Touchstone\/Kobal\/Shutterstock <\/p>\n The cast of ‘The Proposal’ on set<\/p>\n “We made this 12 years ago,” Reynolds wrote on his Instagram Story at the time. “Betty turns 99 today. But she is 100 [percent] the funniest person on the planet.”<\/p>\n Bones star David Boreanaz also remembered White\u2019s more adult words back in August during the Bones: 20th Anniversary Retrospective panel at the inaugural Televerse Festival. White appeared on the series twice, in 2015 and 2017, as Dr. Beth Mayer.<\/p>\n “She says hello to everybody. And Emily [Deschanel] and I are waiting for her. And she’s like, \u2018Good to see you. Oh, good to see you. You\u2019re so nice. You\u2019re so pretty.\u2019 She goes up to Emily \u2014 \u2018Oh, you\u2019re so pretty,\u2019 ” he remembered.<\/p>\n “She looks at me, she goes, \u2018Holy s—, I want to f— you<\/a>. I want to f— you!\u2019 I just started laughing,” he remembered.<\/p>\n Deschanel said she didn\u2019t remember hearing that, but added that White had a “legendary potty mouth.”<\/p>\n Though White loved appearing in The Proposal, the TV veteran<\/a> told PEOPLE in 2010 that she much preferred the small screen. “I love television because you do it, go home and move on. With films, you go over it so many times, you beat the whole joke to death,\u201d she explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n Read the original article on People<\/a><\/p>\n![\"RGR](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5f72b9672949ee0eb3d97fea7a5216db.jpeg\"\/)
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