Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell’s Anyone But You finally looks like a rom-com
Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell star in Anyone But You, premiering in theaters December 22
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Anyone But You, starring Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell, went from one of the most anticipated movies of the year to the most dubious after the teaser trailer was released. Fans who fawned over the casting and fell for the behind-the-scenes hype feared the worst when the brief teaser seemed to lack chemistry. But a new, full trailer for the film, which premieres December 22, falls back into familiar romantic comedy rhythms that may put people’s minds at ease.
Going into this trailer, we already knew that Ben (Powell) and Bea (Sweeney) are one-time lovers-turned-enemies who happen to reunite at a destination wedding and decide to pretend they’re together. In the new trailer, we get an explanation for their fake dating scheme: Bea’s parents are trying to get her back with her ex (Darren Barnet), while Ben is hung up on another wedding guest. If they pretend to be in love, it’ll get Bea’s parents off her back and make Ben’s dream girl jealous, or so the logic goes.
Of course, things don’t go as planned, because these two can’t stand each other and have had/are having steamy sex. (This is an R-rated rom-com, baby!) Shenanigans inevitably ensue, many to do with the Australian landscape (there are spiders everywhere over there).
Speaking of the Australian landscape, Sweeney and Powell returned last week for some Anyone But You reshoots. “We were hoping that the strike would finish so we could film these extra things we wanted to do. We were very excited that it ended in time,” director Will Gluck told The Sydney Morning Herald. The filming was reportedly pick-up shots of some gorgeous local vistas: “Hopefully this ‘beautiful Australia’ stuff will make it so much better.”
However, sneaking in some reshoots just a month before the movie is slated to debut once again roused some skepticism about the quality of the film. The actors strike certainly made things tricky for everyone, but was the version Sony was going to release before the strike ended even a finished product? Whatever the case may be, the new trailer will either reassure doubters or turn people off of Anyone But You completely.
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So she’s 26 and he’s 55 Wow. I didn’t know that, you’re telling me now for the first time.But seriously, Hollywood stays gross and messed up.
Glen Powell isn’t 55…he’s 35.
Damn, typo, that’s what I meant and now I can’t edit or delete it
lol it’s only a 9 years difference and she’s 26. What are you on about?
I mean, that’s 9 years between people who are both fully grown adults. I think “gross” is going a bit far. My dad’s 11 years older than my mum. IT’s not that big a deal.
That really threw me, but I was ready to believe that the guy I know from playing a college student in Scream Queens and Everybody Wants Some was 55 years old.
Even if it weren’t a typo, this is getting stupid. If Sydney were sixteen, and Colin were thirty five, or even twenty five, this would be a big deal. But she’s not, she twenty six. At twenty six, you’re expected to have at least some agency over your life.
This is like Sam Neil overreacting over the Allan Grant/ Ellie Sattler relationship. Never mind that Ellie was an established archaeologist, never mind that Ellie was a college (if not university) graduate with a diploma. Because she hooked up with Alan, she was clearly being groomed.
A movie here or there, sure, nbd, but it’s pretty much standard in movies to a gross extent. Picking another movie as your comparison doesn’t refute that
I’m not familiar with Neil’s comments, but wouldn’t the issue with Grant/Sattler be that she was his graduate student? Not the age gap itself.
My mum’s almost 10 years younger than my dad and she went into that relationship absolutely clear eyed. I can tell you for sure, that now that he’s almost 84 she’s regretting it. Which of course is neither here nor there to this conversation.
He only looks like a 55 year old
What do you think is an appropriate or non-gross age difference for couples or sexual partners in films in numerical terms, and should the studios enact all-encompassing rules to ensure that age difference relationships in Hollywood never happen again?
I like that header image because I, too, always leave my arms at my side and just press my tits against someone I’m having slightly antagonistic, slightly sexy banter with. This is a totally natural way for humans to stand. Totally natural. Not weird at all.
Placing tits on my person is a good way to win the argument.
Well with a pair of girls like that she doesn’t have to be standing THAT close lol. Also reminds me of a comment I saw on a podcast I listen to. It’s First Date with Lauren Compton, who is also shall we say gifted in the chest area, which she is fully aware of a shows off on purpose with low cut tops. Anyway she is really entertaining, I listen and don’t watch, anyway all anyone comments on are her tits, but I have to admit I heard the BEST slag for tits I have heard in a long time. Someone straight up called them Calcium Cannons, I just about lost my shit at work.
I list this forum character where you take 115 words to repeat a not-funny two-word joke. It’s a hat on a hat but it works.
What, you think they his Sweeney for her arms?
unless lions come and eat everyone involved, not interested. that also applies to all “reality” tv. include the producers in the lion eating.
Cool. Thanks for that.
You’re right, they should remake Roar.
What does reality TV have to do with this fiction romcom movie?
All reality is a construct, and thus distinctions between “fiction” and “reality” are all inherently fallacious, maaaaan.*takes bong hit*
Absolutely disgusting to see the almost 75 year old Glen Powell hooking up with an 18 year old Sydney Sweeney.
I just can’t believe the 126-year-old Glen Powell is hooking up with pre-term fetus Sydney Sweeney.
We have to deal with the larger problem, that the ageless entity which calls itself Glen Powell can not be stopped by any human power. Our only hope is the yet-to-be-born saviour, Sydney Sweeney.
2254Endless war has reduced Earth to cinders
Humanity struggles to survive the barren wastelandsThe Ageless God-Emperor Glen Powell rules from his throne of skullsBut humanity still has hopeFor some day, the savior, Sydney Sweeney, may yet be born
Sydney Sweeney is a horrible actress.
People always go on about the snakes and spiders here in Australia, but the truth is they’ll mostly leave you alone. It’s the fucking magpies you have to watch out for.
Well I get why that they did that first trailer. That was….bad. Sydney Sweeney is delivering her lines like she’s in a Hallmark movie…