00:00prayed for help and we said help us help us please learn how to dance give me your rhythm
00:07your outfit is so poppy right now oh yeah thanks that's a compliment i love that your offers were
00:13great oh thank you poppy and alex have the friends to lovers trope that is very popular in rom-coms
00:18why do you think the friends to lover works is it the best trope you feel the best trope i
00:22think
00:23everyone's gonna have a different opinion about that i like i think i do like the sort of enemies
00:30to lovers as well i don't know if i could pick one but i think people love it because
00:38it's like yearning it's a very yeah it's a lot of yearning is very in style at the moment i
00:45think
00:45has yearning ever gone out of style but it's a whole thing right now everyone's loving yearning
00:50apparently i've loved i've loved yearning since i saw pride and prejudice that is all yearning
00:56that's a great segue because there is quite a lot of yearning in the book and in the movie
01:01mainly by alex tom why do you think that it's important to see men yearning on screen
01:07it's an amazing question why is it important to see men yearning on screen you know why
01:11because men like to pretend that we're all tough and uh don't have a soft inside but we have a
01:18big
01:18soft inside and i think the yearning allows that to come out and and you know like we men should
01:26yearn it puts you in a vulnerable place and it's good to be vulnerable yeah it is it is but
01:29like
01:33would you consider yourself a yearner are you a yearner yeah at times yeah yeah i can be quite
01:39romantic so i think i think it uh yeah yes definitely when i was a lot younger i definitely yearned
01:46painfully yearned and that's all i'm gonna say on that all right we won't push it but i want to
01:51know
01:51more i could see i could see you wanted to push that line of questioning i was like you know
01:55what
01:58would you in real life consider yourselves an alex or a poppy i'm a poppy for sure i think we're
02:04both
02:04both are oh yeah well it depends there are moments you have alex tendencies you've changed your tune
02:12on that because you didn't think that before today when you were doing the thing it kind of made me
02:16open my mind figured out i'm a grouchy traveler oh and so that is like i'm quite i get quite
02:21stoic
02:21when i'm traveling yeah so i just want to get it done um just a little bit out but you're
02:26definitely a
02:26more poppy okay yeah yeah and same for you yeah definitely so you when you were doing this you
02:31were like this is me yeah i mean it was kind of like the not not the running joke but
02:38brett would
02:38it's just like just it's just you so just lean into that there are so many moments in the movie
02:43you
02:43just want these two characters to just get over themselves and make out just so bad you're watching
02:49it you're like please just kiss kiss what ultimately do you think is the biggest reason they're too scared
02:53to be together i think it's because if it in their minds if it goes wrong the greatest friendship
03:01they've ever had goes away yeah and i think there's a very real possibility of that with them i think
03:07that if it really like blew up in their faces at the end of the day and they weren't compatible
03:14in
03:14that way or something i think it would be hard to go back because they would have taken such a
03:20leap
03:23and yeah the friendship is so i mean best friends best friends yeah something is expectation
03:30they both have like they've built up this expectation in their own mind of what their
03:34life is supposed to be like poppy's like i'm supposed to be free i'm supposed to not have any
03:39things that hold me back or tie me down and alex is the opposite he thinks he's got to have
03:44stability and he wants to live in linfield where he grew up and he wants to be near his family
03:48and all
03:48this and i think sometimes expect putting expectation on yourself and other people
03:54is the death of change yeah and it holds you back and it stops you from being changeable and malleable
04:00and that's what you need to be able to fall in love with someone and be vulnerable with someone so
04:03yeah i think the at the end when they let go of their expectation of themselves and each other
04:07they're able to realize how close they were all along yeah yeah 100 that's so true
04:13thank you that's very good philosophizing a lot today yeah yeah i felt it go back and star in any
04:19rom-com that you've ever seen which one would you pick just to star in yes i'm trying not to
04:25say the
04:26one that i always say i'm trying to say something else when harry met sally i know i keep saying
04:30the
04:30same thing to him it's hard because i mean if i'm thinking pure romance it's one billion percent pride and
04:37prejudice and that ship has sailed which version 2005. okay is that controversial to you no not to
04:44me i just know i just know it's controversial it's not a it's not a con i think it's a
04:48funny movie
04:50are you kidding me mrs bennett all the sisters that's peak comedy i'm gonna say uh
04:59four weddings and a funeral okay that's a good one or notting hill
05:03i just saw notting hill for the first time yeah those old hugh grant rom-coms are so good
05:08also the holiday but i want to be like kate winslet and and jack black section dancing was very cute
05:17love it what um prep went into it and how did it come together you want me to say we
05:22can both say
05:22it we had an awesome awesome choreographer we went to this like church i think building in nor when we
05:30landed in new orleans prayed for help and we said help us please learn how to dance give me rhythm
05:38um
05:40but we um we basically kind of came up with ideas like things we'd seen in movies before
05:47moves we wanted to incorporate um strung them together with her help she was really amazing yeah
05:53and rehearsed it for a little bit so that we had we knew what we were doing enough yeah and
05:59the
05:59choreographer filmed us rehearsing it and doing it and then she would show us how bad it was and say
06:05this could be better this could be better she was really supportive and so we we then but it was
06:09actually really helpful because we kind of we we we worked hard on that well and you can't improvise
06:14it because you need to shoot it from so many different angles it has to be the same but it
06:18had
06:18to have an improvised feel because they're not dancers they're two people just like letting loose yes and kind
06:22of falling in love while they're letting loose and so i have to have that loose quality to it if
06:26you
06:26could pick any of the vacations that alex and poppy went on which one would it be i'm so sorry
06:32can you
06:32say that again of course my ears tuned into the music outside the karaoke that's happening
06:42if you could pick any of the vacations that alex and poppy went on he's really getting it right now
06:48which one would it be any of the vacations that poppy lock in look i'm in i'm back in the
06:53room uh
06:54this is the problem in new orleans it's such a distracting place because it's so it's like
06:58disneyland for adults so it's like why why um vacation no i remember which which vacation you answer
07:06the damn question i would love to go to tuscany i think i haven't been i've been to uh parts
07:12of
07:12southern italy and i love italy it's the only place where i feel like i'm not the loudest person
07:20at the dinner table and that made me feel really good like i felt like i fit in there culturally
07:28tuscany felt it yeah i want to go to squamish where they go in uh in canada i really like
07:37canada
07:37i feel like it's got everything to offer yeah um it's good not been it's good what is your rom
07:43-com
07:43inspiration when harry met sally is i say it so much i'm tired of my own voice but it is
07:50uh yeah
07:50it's my favorite rom-com and one of the reasons i wanted to do this was because it reminded me
07:55of it
07:56yeah and i think just to continue with the sort of meg ryan effect you know you got mail is
08:02an
08:03amazing movie i love tom hanks in his rom-com era as well i think that there was some things
08:11that
08:11i like tried to like learn from watching those movies just how i don't know he's just so charming
08:17in those so yeah basically meg ryan everything
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