Anyone But You
Starring Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell, Alexandra Shipp, GaTa, Hadley Robinson, Michelle Hurd, Dermot Mulroney, Darren Barnet, and Rachel Griffiths.
Release date: 26 December 2023 (Australia)
Director: Will Gluck
Distributed by: Sony Pictures Releasing
Based on: Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Rejoice as to fun Romp com is coming out and one that will tickle most and with eye candy of two A-listers Glenn Powell and Sydney Sweeney as the screen lights up with these two and the fact that it is filmed in Sydney with some great highlights of iconic locations.
Get ready for light comedy as Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell play romantic enemies who have to put aside their personal vendettas and pretend to be a head-over-heels couple in order to keep the peace. “This movie is a wild, fun time,” says Sweeney. “It’s sexy, it’s funny, it’s R-rated, there’s beautiful places, an amazing cast. What more could you want?” whos is also EP on the film.
For director Will Gluck, the film was a chance to make a romantic comedy that was funny as any in recent memory. “They are simply two of the funniest people I’ve ever worked with,” says Gluck. “You put them on the big screen together, and magic happens.”
In the screenplay he co-wrote with Ilana Wolpert, Bea (Sweeney) and Ben (Powell) look like the perfect couple – but after a one night stand years ago, the fallout was epic, and they’ve hated each other ever since. No – hated doesn’t cover it. They are nemeses. And they let each other know it every chance they get… sometimes going to extreme lengths to even the scorecards.
But fate has made them both guests at the same destination wedding, and if they don’t get their act together, they’re going to ruin it for everybody. Bea’s solution: pretend they’ve both been captured by the romantic setting and have gotten together as a couple.
“As much as Bea hates Ben, and vice versa, it’s important to Bea not to wreck her sister’s wedding. So, she hatches her plan: these two people who actually hate each other will pretend to like each other,” says Sweeney. “But as she and Ben are drawn together, they start to actually love each other, but can’t admit it to themselves.”
Of course, it’s not long before they get in over their heads. “Sometimes, I wonder if Will was just rubbing his hands together, thinking about all of the messed-up situations and crazy stuff he could make Glen and me do,” Sweeney continues. “On the other hand, it was all incredibly funny. So we did it. You’re welcome, Will.”
At the same time, Sweeney says, the script offered a chance to play real characters who are coming to love fighting it every step of the way. “You see it all the time – people are so afraid of being vulnerable, of opening themselves up to another person, that they sabotage the best relationships they’ve ever had,” says Sweeney. “Bea and Ben have a connection that is so real, deep, and immediate that they are going to do everything they can to deny it – until they can’t anymore.”
One of Gluck’s primary goals – in addition to making a very funny movie – was to showcase Sydney, and the film was shot all over Sydney, both at iconic locations including the Sydney Opera House, on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and at Bondi Beach, as well as at Palm Beach, the Rocks and the Sydney Cricket Ground. Perhaps most spectacularly, the team filmed for seven nights on a superyacht as it sailed all over Sydney Harbour.
“The beautiful part is that we are able to showcase the country, as well as work with an amazing Australian crew,” says Glen Powell. “The film itself reflects how beautiful this country is. There’s a romantic feeling in Australia, and this movie bubbles with that same energy.”
Another fact is that after 20 years it bring back Rachel Griffiths and Dermot Mulroney, who were in Best Friend Wedding as they are married parents to Sweeney. They had a special screening of the film during the filming to revisit romp com film of that time.
It is a fun film.
