“When you find somebody that you really jive with, Sydney is so easy to work with and so fun. We’re definitely trying to find the next thing,” Powell told Variety at the SAG Awards this past weekend, along with a request for writers to send the pair “all the scripts you got.”
“You know we’re here for it. It’s been really wonderful to read a lot,” he continued. “Sydney reads everything, by the way, and in record time. She’s the fastest reader I think I’ve ever met. It takes me a little longer, but we’re reading everything and just trying to see what makes sense, what we can turn into something that audiences are going to respond to.”
With or without the perfect script, they’re already old pros on that last part. Back in August, Sweeney laughed off speculation about her and her co-star’s red carpet chemistry, saying that their movie was a “rom-com… That’s what people want!” She was right. Anyone But You hit $200 million at the box office this weekend, officially rendering it the highest-grossing Shakespeare adaptation of all time. (The film is based on Much Ado About Nothing.) It’s also the only film based on the bard’s work to receive a Nathan Fielder parody promo, which is obviously a special height of success all in itself.
In the meantime, the two are both booked and busy. Sweeney has a number of films in the hopper, including a survival thriller called Eden and Catholic horror Immaculate, while Powell will next appear in Lee Isaac Chung’s Twisters, out this summer. “The movie, just the texture of it, the fun of it, the world, it’s going to be a ride,” Powell said of the upcoming thriller. “It’s really good. It’s nuts.”
