Ryan Phillippe flashes big smile after buying Powerball tickets ahead of $1billion jackpot draw

An estimated $1 billion jackpot is up for grabs in the next Powerball draw.

Since no one managed to match all whites and reds on Monday, ticket buyers will have another chance to go big in the next draw on Wednesday night.

Actor Ryan Philippe hopes to become that big winner after he went to buy his tickets at a donut shop in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles.

He was spotted coming out of Tang’s Donuts and Coffee with a big smile on his face just hours before the new numbers were pulled at 10:59 PM ET/7:59 PM PT.

With a jackpot of around $1 billion, the winner who chooses to make the one-time lump sum payout will take home $516. 8 million before taxes.

The Cruel Intentions star, 48, had his tickets in hand as he walked out of the store and headed back to his parked vehicle.

The New Castle, Delaware native kept it casual in the fashion department, wearing tan jeans with a white T-shirt and white sneakers.

With the sun shining on another hot day in Southern California, with temperatures hovering around 90 degrees Fahrenheit in the Los Feliz area, Philippe is also wearing stylish sunglasses.

The father of three, two of whom he shares with ex-wife Reese Witherspoon, appears confident, judging by the big, beaming smile he wore all the way back to his car.

While no one had all the numbers for Monday’s game, three people won $2 million after matching all five numbers plus the Power Play, lottery officials said, according to NPR.

The winning lottery tickets were sold in Arkansas, Georgia and Texas.

Lottery officials predict there will be a surge in ticket sales leading up to Wednesday night’s drawing, pushing it to more than $1 billion, which would make it the third-largest in Powerball history and the seventh-largest in US lottery history.

The highest Powerball jackpot was the $2.04 billion won last year, while the second highest payout of $1.586 billion came in 2016, according to CBS news.

Casual-cool: The Cruel Intention star smiled confidently as he emerged from a donut shop after buying his Powerball tickets dressed in tan jeans and a white t-shirt

Phillippe will star in the new action thriller film Kalahari, which has already wrapped production, according to deadline.

The actor joins Emile Hirsch and Mena Suvari as the main cast for the film that was fully financed by Vertical

Written and directed by Mukunda Michael Dewil, the story follows a young couple (Phillippe and Suvari) who are forced to flee their Christian mission in the Kalahari Desert aboard a rickety plane after an extremist militant group threatens their lives.

The plane, piloted by a corrupt smuggler (Hirsch), loses power and crash lands in the middle of an animal sanctuary populated by lions, leopards and hyenas.

Big money: The Powerball jackpot is expected to exceed $1 billion by the time of Wednesday night’s drawing

Scared and wounded, the group is forced to fight for their lives, both against the extremists and the beasts lurking in the region.

So far in 2023, Phillippe has starred in two other films: the thriller The Locksmith, which also stars Kate Bosworth and Ving Rhames, and the biographical drime-drama Miranda’s Victim, alongside Abigail Breslin, Luke Wilson, Andy Garcia, and Donald Sutherland.

Phillippe had been married to Reese Witherspoon for about eight years by the time their divorce was finalized in 2007.

The former couple share daughter Ava, 23, and son Deacon, 19.