UPDATE: Nathan Fielder denies these clearly unfounded rumors of trailer copying
The Curse rolled out a trailer poking fun at Powell and Sweeney's Anyone But You in less than 24 hours
It’s been one whole day since Sony Pictures rolled out a new trailer for Anyone But You, its new Glen Powell/Sydney Sweeney rom-com, a promo vid that saw Powell and Sweeney doing a little “Oooh, they have chemistry in real life, too!” banter with some pre-roll bickering. Which leads us to a genuine question: How the hell did Nathan Fielder, Emma Stone, and Showtime’s The Curse get together so goddamn fast to drag their asses in response?
Because it was pretty much exactly 24 hours later that The Curse released the above trailer, in which Fielder and Stone flop-sweat their way through the exact same “bickering” as Powell and Sweeney, complete with the same awkward body language in front of the same robin’s egg blue background. (They’re even wearing basically the same “Bland Hollywood people being casual!” clothes.) It’s such a random swing that it picks up thathint of personal amusement that informs so much of Fielder’s work—because why else would Stone and Fielder have apparently raced to get together to mock this particular bit of stilted Hollywood promotion? You can easily imagine someone calling someone with a quick “Have you seen this? We’ve got to.”