In the hilarious comedy Anyone But You, out on Stephen’s Day 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, there’s beautiful places, an amazing cast. What more could you want?”
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.
