It wasn’t hard getting the time off that I needed. I just had to double up on some scenes, which my costars were only too happy to do once they learned the reasons why. I didn’t tell them the whole truth, of course, just that Ryder and I had decided to do an impromptu tour to pacify our fans.

I didn’t know, no scratch that; I was surprised at just how many people were invested in Ryder and me, including everyone on the set. Over the last couple of years that I’d been ...