Dave Franco is taking a trip down memory lane! On Wednesday night (February 2), the 36-year-old The Afterparty actor stopped by The Late Late Show with James Corden and looked back at the very awkward way he proposed to wife Alison Brie as they prepare to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary. Click inside to read more… During his interview, Dave recalled meeting the 39-year-old GLOW actress at Mardi Gras in New Orleans back in 2011, for which she wore a silver mask throughout the entire weekend. “I would try to take it from her, she wouldn’t let me take it.
It was this playful back-and-forth,” Dave explained. At the end of the trip, Alison left Dave the mask with a note, which he saved and incorporated into his proposal years later.
In 2015, Dave decided to pop the question during a trip to Big Sur, Calif. and since he knew Alison wanted to pick out her own engagement ring, he proposed with a “placeholder ring” he bought from a vintage store for $10. “So, we go up to Big Sur, we’re on the back patio, she’s out overlooking the ocean,” Dave recalled. “She turns around, I’m on one knee, I’m wearing the mask, I’m holding up the ring.
And because it had been five years, she couldn’t place the mask. She didn’t know what it was.” He continued, “So, what she sees is me wearing this weird, stupid mask, holding up this janky stone ring.
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