Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly reunite after falling out over Jerry Buss’ role in the HBO Lakers drama “Winning Time” to deliver Snoop Dogg’s 52nd birthday cake on stage.

The half-brothers made a triumphant return, and from the looks of things there don’t seem to be any hard feelings between the two stars.

On Saturday, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, longtime friends and colleagues, gathered to help celebrate Snoop Dogg’s 52nd birthday at the Best Night Of Your Life 2 charity show.

While the hip-hop legend was on stage, the two actors and comedians came out and surprised him with a huge, three-tier birthday cake.

“Yesterday was a very special day. “It was Snoop Dogg’s birthday,” Riley, 58, told the crowd, before Snoop pulled out a cigarette and lit the candles. “That’s what I’m thinking about,” Riley, 58, told the crowd.

The duo then led the audience into a sing-along rendition of “Happy Birthday,” followed by Snoop blowing out his candles.

“My brothers surprised me,” Snoop wrote on Instagram, while sharing a behind-the-scenes look at the special moment. “Will and John.

The scene of Ferrell and Reilly on stage together having fun with Snoop comes in the wake of a dispute over the role of Jerry Buss in the HBO sports drama series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.

The two stars share a long collaborative history that includes starring together in Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby (2006), and Holmes & Watson (2018), to go along with their comedy Step Brothers (2008).

But it turns out that Ferrell had been pressuring his then-producing partner and best friend Adam McKay to play the larger-than-life Lakers owner, Jerry Buss, ever since he began developing the show, an adaptation of Jeff Perlman’s Showtime book. : Magic, Kareem, Riley and the Los Angeles Lakers dynasty.

But MacKay didn’t feel he was right for the role of the late Boss, who passed away in 2013, and instead cast Boardwalk Empire star Michael Shannon in August 2019.

“And Will was good at it,” MacKay said of their different casting choices. Hollywood Reporter.

However, things did not go as planned with Shannon, who reportedly disliked the fourth-wall-breaking format of the series, and he ended up walking out of production after just one month.

With just over a week until filming was scheduled to begin, McKay and the cast rushed to cast Reilly for the role of Jerry Buss.

Before he signed on, Reilly decided to reach out and call Ferrell, who admitted in hindsight that he should have been the one to contact the comedian first.

Upon learning of the decision, via a phone call from Reilly, Ferrell was so angry that he ended his friendship and professional relationship with McKay.

“There was this weird moment where Will and I weren’t quite hugging each other, even though there was nothing terrible, and he called Will and said, ‘Hey, McKay just came to me with this,’” the producer and director of the pilot said.

“And Will was very hurt that I wasn’t the one to call him, and I should have been,” he continued. I fed up.’

Not wanting to jeopardize his friendships with both men, Riley decided to stay away from anything that would hurt either of them.

He said of their dispute: “Will is one of my best friends, Adam is one of my best friends, I was happy to get the job and that’s all I really have to say.”

The first season about the Showtime Lakers, consisting of 10 episodes focusing on the 1979–1980 NBA season, premiered in March 2022 and received “generally favorable reviews” from critics.

A second season of seven episodes covering the years between 1980 and 1984 followed last August.

But just over a month later, HBO announced that the series would not be renewed for a third season.

Along with Reilly (Jerry Buss), Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty also stars Quincy Isaiah (Magic Johnson), Solomon Hughes (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), Jason Clarke (Jerry West), and Adrien Brody (Pat Reilly). And Jason. Siegel (Paul Westhead), Devon Nixon (Norm Nixon), Sally Field (Jesse Buss), Gaby Hoffman (Claire Rothman),

The cast also includes Tracy Letts (Jack McKinney), Hadley Robinson (Jeannine Buss), Julianne Nicholson (Cranny McKinney), Tamera Tumacelli (Erlitha ‘Cookie’ Kelly), Spencer Garrett (Chick Hearn), Sara Ramos (Cheryl Pistono), Molly . Gordon (Linda Zaafarani), Delante D’Souza (Michael Cooper), Jamil Atkins (Jamal Wilkes), Austin Aaron (Mark Landsberger), Brett Cullen (Bill Sharman), Steven Adly Guirgis (Frank Mariani), among others.