Already 0 million at the box office: This romantic comedy starring Glenn Powell and Sidney Sweeney is inspired by Shakespeare and is popular around the world

Already $100 million at the box office: This romantic comedy starring Glenn Powell and Sidney Sweeney is inspired by Shakespeare and is popular around the world

After the comedies Easy Girl, Sex Between Friends and Peter Rabbit, American director Will Guck returns with the romantic comedy Everything But You, which has already earned more than $100 million at the international box office, including $64 million domestically. United States.

Directed by Sydney Sweeney and Glenn Powell, the feature film follows Bea and Ben. They have everything about the perfect couple, but after a perfect first date, an incident ruins their mutual attraction before an unexpected reunion at a wedding in Australia. Then they do what any mature adult would do in this situation: pretend to be in a relationship.

A romcom inspired by William Shakespeare…

The feature film is inspired by William Shakespeare’s play.much ado about nothing” It has already been adapted to the cinema several times in more classic versions. Quotations from the British playwright’s work also appear in certain dialogues and title boxes in the film.

A key aspect of the story that the film brings to life is the intrigue between Shakespeare’s characters, Benedick and Beatrice. Although both characters seem to hate each other and are constantly arguing, they are actually in love with each other. In the playwright’s works, other characters play matchmakers between two characters until the latter confess their love to each other.

Glenn Powell and Sydney Sweeney

This is not the first romcom to be inspired by the works of classic authors. Thus, the Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles feature film 10 Reasons to Dump You (1999) was an adaptation of “The Taming of the ShrewAndy Fickman’s That Man (2006) was a modern rereadtwelfth night” and Clueless with Alicia Silverstone was inspired“Emma” by Jane Austen.

Where have you seen the stars of the movie before?

A very modern retelling of Shakespeare’s play, Everything but you worn by two new Hollywood stars, Sydney Sweeney and Glenn Powell.

Glenn Powell starred in The Dark Knight Rises, where he plays a trader who fights a villain played by Tom Hardy, and in the action film The Expendables 3, Glenn Powell played Chad Radwell in Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens. But above all, it was his role as pilot Jake ‘Hangman’ Ceresini in the 2022 summer hit Top Gun: Maverick that made him known to the general public.

The 35-year-old actor is dating an American actor here Sydney Sweeney. If the young woman started her career at the age of 14, from 2018 she got more important roles. Thus, she appears in the second season of The Handmaid’s Tale, where she plays Eden, a pious young woman, and then Alice in Sharp Objects with Amy Adams.

Sydney Sweeney in Euphoria

In 2019, Sam Levinson cast her as the cruel high school student Cassie Howard in the hit series Euphoria. The role, which also earned her an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, launched her career.

That same year, Quentin Tarantino offered him the role of a hippie in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. Sidney Sweeney then played Olivia Mossbacher in the first season of White Lotus and was once again nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries at the Emmy Awards.

Sydney Sweeney spotted Glenn Powell at an awards show

Sydney Sweeney, the producer of this romantic comedy, convinced the director himself Will Gluck as a film director. The young woman explains in the press kit that she really liked her first comedies. simple girl with Emma Stone and Sex between friends With Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher.

It was he who wanted to offer the role of Ben Glenn Powell, However, the Sydney Sweeney actress has never responded before.

He explains his choice: “I met Glenn on stage at the MTV Awards, he gave me an award (Editor’s note: for euphoria), eI remember who this guy was. When we were casting Everything But You, he was always at the top of my list. I could not forget this little relationship.”

Everything but you

Sydney Sweeney then adds:Glenn was a lot of fun to work with. He always had a joke to tell and worked out all the time. 24/7 – on top of me, next to me, behind me, he was always doing pushups. It was the craziest thing ever..

Alchemy that gets people talking…

The chemistry between the two actors was instant. So much so that the co-starring of Glenn Powell and Sidney Sweeney during previews led many fans to think that the two actors were a couple and helped the film become a household name.

Many X users (formerly of Twitter) have speculated about a possible offset romance between the film’s stars. Especially since Glenn Powell convinced him on the microphoneentertainment tonight During the American promotion of the film: “A romantic comedy doesn’t work without good chemistry between actors, and Sydney is probably the easiest to find that chemistry..”

Sydney Sweeney also mentioned the rumours “Young Power in Hollywood” issue of Variety magazine. The actor and producer says:This is a romantic comedy. People want love! We don’t care much about rumours. We have so much fun together and respect each other immensely; He’s a hard worker, and I’m a hard worker.”

Glenn Powell and Sidney Sweeney in AP Everything But You

A preliminary bite…

shooting of Everything but you It was held in Sydney, Australia. A country known for its impressive creatures. during the filming of the scene, Sydney Sweeney Bitten by a Huntsman spider, the largest of the parasitic spiders.

Araka had to climb onto the actor’s arm for filming purposes, but as he didn’t come forward, the team forced him to move. The latter then bit Sidney Sweeney, who started screaming. The actor recalls Jimmy Fallon on the mic That Glenn Powell was the only one who realized something was wrong.

My yelling got a little too serious…

We were filming and a spider started biting me. We were in the middle of the stage and I should have screamed, but my screams got a little heavy. Everyone thought I chose to be dramatic, so no one intervened. I was standing there with this spider on my arm, biting me, and I was screaming and everyone was watching. Glenn was the only one who said it was too real and we cut it. “.

A medical team recorded the incident on set under the title “Sydney Sweeney: First Aid: Spider Bite, Woman Becomes Spider”.

Sydney Sweeney said during the show that the team was completely unaware of her next project, Sony’s Spider-Man spin-off, Madame Web (in theaters February 14), in which the actress plays Julia Carpenter, aka… The Spider. – Woman! Or when reality exceeds fiction…

Everything but you You can see it in theaters this Wednesday, January 24th.

Source: Allocine

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