It’s been almost two years since the rom-com Anyone But You starring Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell premiered, and somehow they’re still getting asked about their undeniable chemistry. While their close relationship has been described as a PR stunt put on to sell their movie, Sweeney swears they didn’t have to play into the dating rumors at all.
“Honestly, the press did it themselves. There was no leaning in, per se,” she said in an interview with Variety. “Truly the tabloids and journalists just created it and kept going. Even if we were just standing next to each other, it was ‘They’re standing two inches apart!’ Glen and I genuinely care for each other and have a love and respect for one another. I love being with him. And I think people just truly saw a really beautiful pairing.”
Powell, on the other hand, told the New York Times in April 2024 that the co-stars did, in fact, play up the romance speculation. “Sydney and I have a ton of fun together, and we have a ton of effortless chemistry,” he said. “That’s people wanting what’s on the screen off the screen, and sometimes you just have to lean into it a bit — and it worked wonderfully.”
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I don’t think the actor’s ex, Gigi Paris, agrees. In June, she went on a podcast and spoke about her 2023 breakup with Powell, calling it not “just a two-sided breakup, but three-sided.” Although she didn’t mention either actors by name, Paris said they let the affair rumors persist just to “sell a movie.” “I don’t know if there was a relationship there or not, but then they came out to say it was all a PR scheme at the expense of our relationship,” Paris said.
To this day, both Powell and Sweeney insist that their relationship is and was platonic — they’re also “always open to” shooting a sequel, apparently. “I think that when the right concept and script come to Glen and I, we will jump in hand in hand,” Sweeney said. I wonder what Scooter Braun thinks of that.
