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Glen Powell admits Sidney Sweeney’s affair rumours ‘worked brilliantly’ for ‘Anyone But You’
In a recent interview with The New York Times, Glen Powell praised the Euphoria star for the role her marketing strategy played in helping make the film a rom-com genre hit. Sweeney also served as executive producer on the project.
“To sell a rom-com you have to have two things, fun and chemistry. Sydney and I have a lot of fun together and we have really natural chemistry,” the 35-year-old ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ actor said.
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Powell said, “People also want to see what’s going on off the screen, and sometimes you just have to lean into it a little bit – and it works surprisingly well. Sydney is very smart. “
Inspired by William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing”, the film stars Glen Powell and Sweeney as former lovers who reluctantly reunite at a wedding in Australia. When it opened in the US in December, “Anyone But You” was far from a box office hit and opening weekend ticket sales were reported to be $6 million.
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Two months later, the Will Gluck-directed feature passed the $200 million milestone in global ticket sales and became the highest-grossing R-rated romantic comedy since “Bridget Jones’s Baby,” released in 2016.
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Tom Rothman, chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, who also oversees Columbia, says, “You have to put the right ingredients in the food: the story, the cast, the filmmakers, the chemistry, the ending.” He said that finding success in the rom-com movie genre is a delicate task. So, if you’re going to make one and do it dramatically, it better be good.