Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney inAnyone But You(2023).Photo:Sony Pictures Entertainment/YouTube
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Sydney SweeneyandGlen Powellwent to dangerous lengths to shoot their upcoming romantic comedyAnyone But You.
In a conversation withEntertainment Weeklyahead of the film’s December release, directorWill Gluckrecalled the tension as the actors shot scenes in “a huge shark area” — in the dark!
A shark tank had to be used to keep the cast safe, which the filmmaker described toEWas “floating buoys with a cage.”
“It was a little bit scary and strange at 3 in the morning with our actors swimming into a shark tank, knowing that they’re at a place where sharks like to hang out," Gluck said.
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Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney inAnyone But You(2023).Sony Pictures Entertainment/YouTube
Anyone But Youfollows Sweeney, 26, and Powell, 35, as Bea and Ben, whose initial attraction to each other fades quickly “until they find themselves unexpectedly thrust together at a destination wedding in Australia,” according to an official synopsis. “So they do what any two mature adults would do: pretend to be a couple.”
In order to do that, the pair mustpretend they actually enjoy each other’s companyand summon the initial mutual attraction from when they first met. As the wedding weekend moves forward, Ben and Bea’s fake-couple hijinks grow more ridiculous, and they begin to wonder whether they actually do belong together.
Anyone But Youhas been on romantic-comedy fans' radars for months after Sweeneyshared a number of snapshotsfrom the film’s production in Australia back in April. That same month, the costars appeared together at CinemaCon 2023 in Las Vegas, where they pitched the movie as revolving around"two people that hate each other."
“Sydney plays a character [who is] a real nightmare,” theScream Queensalum quipped to the audience gathered at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. And Powell’s character, Sweeney said, is a real “a——.”
“And what better place to put a nightmare and an a–h— than on the other side of the world in the most romantic setting imaginable?” Powell teased of the film.
Powell’s split from ex-girlfriendGigi Paris, around the same time the movie filmed in the spring, fueled rumors that the costars were engaged in an offscreen romance.
“When all that stuff happened, you know, publicly, it felt disorienting and unfair,” theTop Gun: Maverickactor said for a recentMen’s Health’s December cover story. “But what I’m realizing is that’s just a part of this gig now.”
“It’s a rom-com,” Sweeney said at the time. “That’s what people want!Glen and I don’t really care. We have so much fun together, and we respect each other so much; he’s such a hard worker, and I’m a hard worker."
“They want it,” she added of fans' reaction to the rumors that surrounded the making of the movie. “It’s fun to give it to ’em.”
Anyone But Youis in theaters Dec. 22.
source: people.com
