Ryan Phillippe says his young ‘Motorheads’ co-stars make him feel like Yoda: ‘Very aware of my age!’

From teenage dream to wise sage.

Ryan Phillippe is taking nan aforesaid travel that actors specified arsenic Luke Perry took earlier: he roseate to fame successful “teen idol” type roles, and now he’s playing a genitor figure.

“I deliberation having 3 kids of varied ages and having been a begetter for a agelong time, that’s a earthy abstraction for me,” Phillippe, 50, told The Post astir his caller teen drama, “Motorheads.” 

But, he added, for his iconic domiciled successful 1999’s “Cruel Intentions,” he finds it “crazy” that “that movie still has caller fans today, and that it holds up nan measurement that it has.”

“It’s besides crazy that they’re now remaking truthful overmuch of nan worldly that I’ve been successful – that makes maine very alert of my age!” 

He shares boy Deacon, 21, pinch his ex-wife, Reese Witherspoon, 49, whom he was joined to from 1999 to 2008. They besides stock girl Ava, 25. (He has a 3rd child, girl Kai, 13, pinch his ex, “Pitch Perfect” character Alexis Knapp.) 

“Motorheads” (premiering May 20 connected Prime Video) follows precocious schoolers Zac (Michael Cimino) and Caitlyn (Melissa Collazo), who move pinch their mom (Nathalie Kelley) backmost to her Rust Belt hometown, wherever there’s a thriving thoroughfare title scene. They’re adjacent pinch their uncle, Logan (Phillippe), a erstwhile NASCAR mechanic who now struggles to support an car assemblage shop afloat.

Deacon plays Logan’s brother, Christian, successful flashbacks, arsenic he vanished nether mysterious circumstances 17 years ago.

“It’s like, astatine 1 point, I was for illustration these early 20-somethings connected this set. And it’s funny really watching them interact and proceeding them talk astir nan manufacture and their careers really does return maine backmost to that time,” Ryan recalled to The Post. 

The “I Know What You Did Last Summer” prima added, “But I besides deliberation that I’m astatine a spot successful my life wherever [I’m] capable to stock immoderate of my experience, and beryllium very unfastened astir what that has been for illustration – nan bully and nan bad – to benignant of steer them successful nan correct direction, aliases beryllium a root of proposal aliases a mentor.”

He quipped, “But yeah, I felt a small spot for illustration Yoda sometimes connected set.”

Ryan’s co-stars would often inquire him “about nan aged days of movie making, and what it utilized to beryllium like.”

“Some of them are acrophobic of being replaced by AI,” he explained. “And I’m telling them that that’s astir apt not an rumor for maine – because I will already beryllium look down by nan clip that happens.”

In his Instagram station astir “Motorheads,” Ryan joked that he does not “die successful this one.” 

His characters successful erstwhile high-profile roles, specified arsenic “Cruel Intentions,” “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and “Big Sky,” person each been killed off. 

“[For ‘Big Sky’] they put maine each complete nan cardinal creation and nan billboards, and past I died successful nan first episode. So I had a batch of group that were very angry pinch maine astir that,” he recalled. “A batch of friends aliases fans were like, ‘oh, we’re going to watch this show and you dice successful nan first episode!’”

“Now, I person to guarantee anyone erstwhile I’m successful a task that I’m going to beryllium successful much than 1 episode.”

Since his “I Know What You Did Last Summer” characteristic died, he won’t beryllium portion of nan 2025 sequel. He besides wasn’t successful Prime Video’s now cancelled revival of “Cruel Intentions.” 

“It does and doesn’t look that agelong ago. It’s absorbing – there’s parts of maine that retrieve it for illustration yesterday, and past there’s different portion of maine that feels for illustration it was personification else’s life altogether,” he said. “You’re conscionable happy that those things endure, and that group still attraction astir nan activity that you did, successful immoderate capacity.”

While filming “Cruel Intentions,” he said he had nary inkling that it would go a cult classic. 

“I did person this dream of being successful immoderate benignant of seminal squad movie, because of nan ones that I grew up watching, for illustration nan John Hughes movies, ‘Pretty successful Pink’ and ‘The Breakfast Club.’ And truthful I deliberation location was a dream of excavation that I would beryllium successful thing for illustration that,” he went on. “But erstwhile you’re making it, you person nary conception of it.”