“We should start with Halle [Bailey], because the reason I did the movie was Halle,” Regé-Jean Page tells RT Awards Editor and Seen on the Screen podcast host Jacqueline Coley. “Halle has a certain disarming soft cuteness that we don’t often get to see in Black relationships on screen, we don’t get to see us have our cute little trip to Tuscany and our cute little love story, and being embraced by the world. […] That’s a movie I haven’t seen.”
Indeed we don’t. It’s not usually we get a Love Jones, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, or Brown Sugar, however producer Will Packer (Girls Trip, Straight Outta Compton) hopes to vary that with Halle Bailey and Page in the rom-com You, Me & Tuscany. The movie follows Anna (Halle Bailey), who has an opportunity encounter with a good-looking Italian man, Matteo (Lorenzo de Moor), and plans to crash at his Tuscany villa with out his permission. But issues change into difficult when she sparks up a romance with Matteo’s cousin, Michael (Regé-Jean Page), after telling Matteo’s household that she’s engaged to Matteo.
“I feel the same [as Regé-Jean Page],” Bailey added. “We had been put in these big roles and people see us as these Black leaders, where they find joy in the art that we’re creating, and us being happy together and joyful. […] It’s a story of joy that doesn’t have to be centered on struggle and drama.”
Check out the complete Seen on the Screen episode above, the place Hailey and Page elaborate extra on why they have been in doing the movie, their expertise with Queen Latifah and Michael Fassbender, and rank their favourite rom-coms.
You, Me & Tuscany hits theaters April tenth. Buy tickets now on Fandango.
Seen on the Screen is a Universal Entertainment and Fandango podcast collection hosted by Jacqueline Coley, Awards Editor at Rotten Tomatoes.
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