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Fans of singer/actor Mack Wilds were quite surprised to find out that he has a starring role in Adele’s new video, “Hello.” In fact, even friends of the former Wire star were shocked – as he hadn’t told a soul but his mom and his manager!

“[I like] to see the looks on people’s faces when something big like that happens,” Mack said in a new interview. And with over 110 million people having seen the video since its release a mere five days ago, I’m sure that equates to many, MANY shocked faces!

As for how he landed the gig? Apparently the video’s director, Xavier Dolan, reached out – and one Skype convo later, Mack got the job!

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“As soon as he reached out, I was excited and I wanted to see what he had to talk about and what his thought process was behind it. And once we got on the Skype and he started speaking about it, just his passion behind it and how much he wanted to put into it and the emotions that he wanted to get across sold me. I told him, ‘If you want me, you got me. I’m completely 100 percent in it.’”

The shoot went on for about 5 days and was done in Montreal, and Mack says it was a great time.

“She’s amazing. Usually people are very awestruck, and at first I was — she’s a very, very beautiful young lady — but I think very, very quickly in, she made it easy for everyone to feel at home. It felt like all of us were friends, we were all just on set having fun.”

Read the full interview here to find out more about the process of filming the video, and whether Mack has heard any more of 25!