The film arrives in theaters on December 22
Enemies to lovers is one of the romance’s messiest tropes, but Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell mastered hiding their hate in the official trailer for Anyone But You, in theaters Dec. 22. The film features the two Hollywood stars at a destination wedding where love is in the air — and so is their disdain for one another.
As evidenced by the preview soundtracked by Olivia Rodrigo’s “Bad Idea Right?,” Sweeney and Powell’s characters — Bea and Ben — are old flames (or one-night-standers) who decide that, for mutually beneficial reasons, they should spend the duration of a wedding trip pretending to be head over heels in love with one another.
“After an amazing first date, something happens that turns their fiery hot attraction ice cold – until they find themselves unexpectedly thrust together at a destination wedding in Australia,” a synopsis for the film reads. “So they do what any two mature adults would do: pretend to be a couple.”
“There’s no way we can convince anyone we actually like each other,” Ben laments in the clip, but they give it their best shot, anyway. Plus, nothing captures true love quite like one person’s eyes constantly rolling to the back of their head and the other acting as though any instance of physical touch is on par with being doused in acid.
Helmed by Easy A-director Will Gluck, Anyone But You has been described as a modernization of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, hence the character names playing off of Benedick and Beatrice. Gluck wrote the film’s screenplay alongside Ilana Wolpert, who crafted the original story.
Anyone But You also stars Alexandra Shipp, GaTa, Hadley Robinson, Michelle Hurd, Dermot Mulroney, Darrne Barnet, and Rachel Griffiths.
