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Glen Powell says Sydney Sweeney affair rumors helped ‘Anyone But You’
“Anybody However You” star Glen Powell is admitting that all the hypothesis final yr over whether or not he and co-star Sydney Sweeney have been having an affair was all a showmance.
“The 2 issues that it’s a must to promote a rom-com are enjoyable and chemistry. Sydney and I’ve a ton of enjoyable collectively, and we now have a ton of easy chemistry,” the “High Gun: Maverick” actor, 35, instructed the New York Instances in an article revealed Tuesday.
“That is folks wanting what’s on the display off the display, and generally you simply must lean into it a bit — and it labored splendidly,” he added. “Sydney could be very good.”
Within the movie, loosely tailored from William Shakespeare’s “A lot Ado About Nothing,” Powell and Sweeney play ex-flames who begrudgingly reconnect at a marriage in Australia. When it debuted within the U.S. in December, “Anybody However You” was removed from a field workplace hit with a reported $6 million in ticket gross sales over opening weekend.
Two months later, the Will Gluck-directed characteristic crossed the $200 million milestone in international ticket gross sales and have become the highest-grossing R-rated romantic comedy since “Bridget Jones’s Child,” launched in 2016, in keeping with Selection.
The movie’s success will be attributed, partially, to Sony’s social media advertising efforts and the main couple stoking rumors and making headlines with steamy images and flirty feedback, which sparked hypothesis a few romance on set.
Each actors repeatedly denied the rumors: Sweeney is engaged to Jonathan Davino, and the 2 produced “Anybody However You” by her manufacturing firm, Fifty-Fifty Movies.
When she hosted “Saturday Evening Dwell” final month, she addressed the “craziest rumor” in her monologue.
“That is clearly not true,” Sweeney stated of her rumored romance with Powell. “Me and my fiancé produced the film collectively, and he was there the whole shoot. I simply need to let everybody know that he is the person of my goals, and we’re nonetheless collectively and stronger than ever.”
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She added that her fiancé was at “SNL” to help her, solely to feign shock because the digicam lower to Powell sitting within the viewers. “No, that is not my fiancé,” she stated. “He is in my dressing room!”
Sweeney additionally detailed how concerned she was in advertising the rom-com within the New York Instances piece, explaining that she “was on each name. I used to be in textual content group chats. I used to be in all probability conserving everyone over at Sony advertising and distribution awake at evening as a result of I could not cease with concepts.”
The “Euphoria” star, 26, stated she was the drive behind a clip the studio shared on social media of her and Powell doing ASMR pick-up traces. It garnered 24.5 million views on TikTok and have become one among @anyonebutyoumovie’s most-watched movies.
Contributing: Patrick Ryan and Brendan Morris