<i>You Deserve Each Other</i>: What We Know So Far
Between Materialists and the forthcoming film Oh, Hi! starring Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman, the romantic comedy renaissance is here. And now there’s a new one on the horizon: Penn Badgley and Meghann Fahy will reportedly star in Amazon MGM’s You Deserve Each Other, adapted from Sarah Hogle’s book of the same name. Here’s everything we know about the movie.
What is You Deserve Each Other about?You Deserve Each Other is based on the 2020 novel by Sarah Hogle. The story follows Naomi Westfield and Nicholas Rose, an engaged couple who slowly begin to realize that they’ve both fallen out of love with each other. But rather than cancel their engagement and pay the nonrefundable wedding bill, they attempt to sabotage the whole ceremony in “a battle of pranks and all-out emotional warfare.”
Penn Badgley and Meghann Fahy will play the “lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers.” The rest of the cast has yet to be announced.
On Instagram yesterday, Badgley and Fahy exchanged some cheeky banter amid the casting news. Badgley posted a video walking the New York streets and praised Fahy’s performance in her new Netflix series Sirens. “Ok, so, I don’t usually do this,” he said, “but my wife and I just finished Sirens. Want to give her her flowers. Now obviously there’s Julianne [Moore], there’s Kevin [Bacon], there’s Milly [Alcock], but this Meghann Fahy? This newcomer? This, like, refreshing, gawky beauty? Love it. Love you.”
Fahy then commented on the post and said, “Penn! This is so kind. Thank you. Tell Domino [Kirke, Badgley’s wife] I say hi. And that her taste is flawless.”
The rest of the exchange went like this:
Badgley: “our* taste. Dom says Hi!”
Fahy: “oops haha. Gawky tho 🧐”
Badgley: “I meant it as a compliment! Long arms are so gorgeous but historically less featured”
Fahy: “chill on the body stuff”
Badgley: “whoa I’ve obviously been very supportive and complimentary but this feels like a trap”
Fahy: “there you go again with that trapping thing. Heard you did a lot of that on your show. I never watched it.”
Badgley: “and somehow it succeeded without your support”
Fahy: “and without your range”
Badgley: “one Emmy loss and suddenly you’re Meryl Streep”
This story will be updated.
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