{"id":117683,"date":"2024-05-09T21:02:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T21:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/09\/nick-jonas-update-sings-not-great-karaoke-books-amfar-gala-starts-new-movie\/"},"modified":"2024-05-09T21:02:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T21:02:58","slug":"nick-jonas-update-sings-not-great-karaoke-books-amfar-gala-starts-new-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/09\/nick-jonas-update-sings-not-great-karaoke-books-amfar-gala-starts-new-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Jonas update: Sings &#8220;not great&#8221; karaoke, books amfAR gala, starts new movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-09\/getty_nickjonas_053123.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Ralph Bavaro\/NBCUniversal via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"><strong>Nick Jonas<\/strong> is a busy guy, which his wife,\u00a0<strong>Priyanka Chopra Jonas<\/strong>, acknowledged in an Instagram post on May 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">It was recently announced that Nick would co-star with <strong>Paul Rudd <\/strong>in a new comedy called <em>Power Ballad<\/em>, and filming is underway. Priyanka acknowledged the news by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C6v3yTBLguy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>posting<\/strong><\/a> a photo of Nick\u00a0with the caption, &#8220;Husband appreciation post: As I finish one he starts one. The universe keeps us in sync. So happy to be reunited as he starts filming <em>Power Ballad<\/em>. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;Congratulations on your first day baby. There is no one who works harder than you,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;This is going to be amazing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Nick plays a rock star in the new film, but in his latest movie,<em> The Good Half,<\/em> which hits theaters July 23, he plays a writer. He tells <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/why-nick-jonas-was-nervous-sing-the-good-half-8644364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Entertainment Weekly<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0it was difficult for him to film a scene\u00a0that required him to sing at a karaoke bar, because he wasn&#8217;t sure how to <em>not<\/em> sound professional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really hard to think about how to try to sound not great, but not bad &#8230;\u00a0it was the one scene that I was nervous about stepping into for the film,&#8221; he tells <em>EW.<\/em> &#8220;It certainly shakes things up mentally, but I thought it was a bizarre thing to try to figure out how to sing good-ish.\u00a0I just tried to have fun with it and act like it was late in the evening after a few drinks, and that made it easier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Nick will be back to singing professionally on May 23: He&#8217;ll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amfar.org\/gala-cannes-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>perform<\/strong><\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amfar.org\/about-amfar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>amfAR<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s 30th anniversary gala in Cap D&#8217;Antibes, France. The event, hosted by<strong> Demi Moore<\/strong> and featuring &#8220;a special musical moment&#8221; with <strong>Cher<\/strong>, will benefit The Foundation for AIDS Research.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Bavaro\/NBCUniversal via Getty Images Nick Jonas is a busy guy, which his wife,\u00a0Priyanka Chopra Jonas, acknowledged in an Instagram post on May 9. It was recently announced that Nick would co-star with Paul Rudd in a new comedy called Power Ballad, and filming is underway. Priyanka acknowledged the news<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/09\/nick-jonas-update-sings-not-great-karaoke-books-amfar-gala-starts-new-movie\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}