All eyes were on Carolina Hoover‘s second film adaptation, regrettingamid the ongoing legal battle between Finish with us stars animated blake and justin baldoni – but the new stars did not bother.
“It’s just a very different vibe and themes,” Mason Thameswho plays Miller Adams, said Entertainment Weekly in an interview published on Saturday, October 25, with those around the set of the upcoming film.
Hoover, 45, published regretting in 2019, focused on the teenager Clara (Grace McKenna) and his mother, Morgan (Allison Williams) as they navigate the death of Clara’s father (Scott Eastwood). Her loss and the immediate aftermath ultimately lead to unraveling even more family secrets. At the same time, Clara finds love in Miller (Thames).
regretting It is Hoover’s second novel adapted to the big screen, after 2016. Finish with us. The film version was released in August 2024, in which Lively, 38, and Baldoni, 41, played a couple in an abusive relationship. After filming wrapped, Lively named Baldoni in lawsuitaccusing him of sexual harassment, fostering a hostile work environment, and attempting to ruin his reputation.
McKenna Grace is set to bring Colleen Hoover’s emotional book, Regretting You, to the big screen. “It’s a difficult story,” Grace, 18, exclusively told Us Weekly at iHeartRadio 102.7 KIIS FM’s Jingle Ball on Friday, December 6. “It’s about pain and a girl losing her father and then a mother losing her husband. […]
Baldoni, who also directed Finish with usvehemently denied the allegations before filing a $400 million defamation lawsuit against Lively and her husband. ryan reynolds. The couple previously denied Baldoni’s accusations the case was dismissed In May. Meanwhile, Lively’s lawsuit is still ongoing.
Grace, 19, Thames, 18, and the rest of the regretting The cast began filming amid the legal tug-of-war.
“It’s a completely different movie, different in everything,” Grace stressed. E.W.. “I think we just went about making a movie like we normally would and trying to make the best movie we could outside of anyone else. [influences].”
Grace further revealed that she first joined Thames by attending a screening of Finish with us.
McKenna Grace, Dave Franco and Allison Williams in ‘Regretting You’.
Jessica Miglio / Paramount Pictures / Courtesy of the Everett Collection““When Mason and I met, we went and saw that movie,” he said. The Handmaid’s Tale the student said to the media. “We wanted to go and prepare for this.”
With regards to tackling the role of Clara in director jose booneThe adaptation of regretting you, Grace turned to Hoover’s novel itself.
“I didn’t know it was a book when I first read the script, but then I read it a hundred times when all this was said and done,” he recalled. “Months before filming, I had my entire book highlighted and annotated down to the ground.”
During Grace’s preparation, she hopes audiences will recognize her character’s authenticity.
Andy Cohen brought up the ongoing legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni while speaking with another star of a Colleen Hoover big-screen adaptation, Regretting You’s Allison Williams. “Did you read the book Regretting You before filming the movie?” Cohen, 57, asked Williams, 37, during the Tuesday, October 21, broadcast of his show Watch What Happens Live. […]
“I thought, ‘I hope he’s not too nasty with all the mistakes he makes,'” Grace explained of her internal monologue during production. “But then I was watching it and I thought, honestly, she’s a very human character. She’s very broken and a little lost, and for me, it was very authentic and real to see her make as many big mistakes as she does.”
Thames also found Grace’s copious notes useful in his own acting process.
“Whenever I was with her, we would just go over things and talk about the things we wanted to bring from the book to the movie,” he said. EW. “[We want to] “Let’s do our characters justice for the fans and, for us, we love these characters.”
regretting It’s already in theaters.