All eyes have been on Colleen Hoover’s second movie adaptation, Regretting You, amid the continuing authorized battle between It Ends With Us stars Blake Vigorous and Justin Baldoni — however the brand new stars weren’t bothered.
“It’s only a vastly totally different vibe and subjects,” Mason Thames, who performs Miller Adams, informed Leisure Weekly in an interview revealed on Saturday, October 25, of the atmosphere on set of the upcoming movie.
Hoover, 45, revealed Regretting You in 2019, centered round teenager Clara (McKenna Grace) and her mom, Morgan (Allison Williams) as they navigate the demise of Clara’s father (Scott Eastwood). Their loss and the fast aftermath in the end result in the unraveling of much more household secrets and techniques. On the similar time, Clara finds love with Miller (Thames).
Regretting You is Hoover’s second novel to be tailored for the large display, following 2016’s It Ends With Us. The movie model was launched in August 2024, through which Vigorous, 38, and Baldoni, 41, performed a pair in an abusive relationship. After filming wrapped, Vigorous named Baldoni in a lawsuit, accusing him of sexual harassment, fostering a hostile work atmosphere and trying to spoil her status.
Baldoni, who additionally directed It Ends With Us, vehemently denied the accusations earlier than submitting a $400 million defamation swimsuit in opposition to Vigorous and her husband, Ryan Reynolds. The married couple denied Baldoni’s allegations earlier than the case was dismissed in Might. Vigorous’s swimsuit, in the meantime, remains to be ongoing.
Grace, 19, Thames, 18, and the remainder of the Regretting You forged started filming amid the authorized back-and-forth.
“It’s a totally totally different movie, totally different every little thing,” Grace harassed to EW. “I feel that we simply went into it making a movie as we usually would, and attempting to make one of the best movie we might exterior of another [influences].”
Grace additional revealed that she first bonded with Thames by hitting up a screening of It Ends With Us.
McKenna Grace, Dave Franco and Allison Williams in ‘Regretting You.’ Jessica Miglio / Paramount Footage / Courtesy of Everett Assortment
“When Mason and I first met, we went and noticed that movie,” the Handmaid’s Story alum informed the outlet. “We needed to go and put together for this.”
With reference to tackling the position of Clara in director Josh Boone’s adaptation of Regretting You, Grace did flip to Hoover’s novel in itself.
“I didn’t know that it was a guide after I first learn the script, however then afterwards, I learn the guide like 100 instances over by the point all of this was stated and executed,” she recalled. “I very a lot had my complete guide highlighted and famous to the seams months previous to taking pictures.”
In Grace’s preparation, she hopes audiences acknowledge her character’s authenticity.
Andy Cohen talked about Blake Vigorous and Justin Baldoni’s ongoing authorized battle whereas talking with one other star of a Colleen Hoover big-screen adaptation, Regretting You’s Allison Williams. “Did you learn Regretting You, the guide, earlier than you shot the film?” Cohen, 57, requested Williams, 37, in the course of the Tuesday, October 21, broadcast of his Watch What Occurs Stay […]
“I used to be like, ‘I hope she’s not too unlikable with all of the errors that she makes,’” Grace defined of her interior monologue throughout manufacturing. “However then I used to be watching it and I used to be like, actually, she’s only a very human character. She’s very damaged and form of misplaced, and to me, it felt simply very genuine and actual, watching her make as many very huge errors as she did.”
Thames additionally discovered Grace’s copious notes to be useful in his personal appearing course of.
“At any time when I used to be along with her, we simply went over issues and talked about stuff we needed to deliver from the guide into the film,” he informed EW. “[We want to] do our characters justice for the followers — and for us, we love these characters.”
Regretting You is in theaters now.
