Overview
- Terry Crews posted an Instagram video of his first meeting with Vinicius Jr. at Rio's Cristo Redentor that showed the two posing together and exchanging praise.
- In the clip Crews calls Vinicius “my brother” and says he loves Brazil while Vinicius playfully jumped onto Crews' back as they took photos.
- The meeting followed a wave of AI face‑swap videos that placed Vinicius and Erling Haaland into the 'A Thousand Miles' car scene from the film White Chicks.
- Haaland reacted to the memes online with a joke about recreating the scene and Crews and Vinicius later trained together and publicly invited Haaland to join them.
- The episode underlines how a long‑running Brazilian fondness for White Chicks scenes and simple AI edits can turn viral jokes into friendly publicity around the World Cup.