Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney in Anybody But You.
Photo: Sony Photographs/Everett Assortment
Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney did not go to the Oscar Isaac college of press tours. If they did, they would not openly admit to weaponizing their crimson-carpet chemistry to stoke relationship rumors even though advertising Everyone But You. They performed reverse every other in the enemies-to-lovers romp, a surprise blockbuster and 1 of the pair’s attempts at getting motion picture-star standing. “The two factors that you have to sell a rom-com are entertaining and chemistry. Sydney and I have a ton of exciting together, and we have a ton of effortless chemistry,” Powell stated in an job interview with the New York Times. “That’s men and women seeking what’s on the display screen off the screen, and sometimes you just have to lean into it a bit — and it labored incredibly. Sydney is quite clever.”
Sweeney was unbelievably involved in the press-tour marketing and advertising and brainstorming system, apparently. “I was on just about every phone,” she informed the Periods “I was in textual content team chats. I was possibly retaining all people over at Sony internet marketing and distribution awake at night time because I couldn’t halt with thoughts. I preferred to make guaranteed that we ended up actively getting a dialogue with the viewers as we were being advertising and marketing this movie, for the reason that at the finish of the working day, they are the types who made the whole narrative.”
The factor is, we had been getting enjoyment imagining that Sweeney and Powell didn’t allow their partners get in the way of a romance between co-personnel. The salaciousness! The drama! Which is the best element about push tours, looking at actors faux to give us a flavor of their very own reality, regardless of whether it be a romance or some other weirdness, and licking the plate cleanse. Like, keep in mind when Isaac sensually caressed Scenes From a Relationship co-star Jessica Chastain’s tricep? I’m sure you do, since neither at any time pulled back the curtain. Isaac could as effectively have claimed he and Chastain are as close as flatworms whose cells connect and reproduce independently.
