After slipping into theaters just before Christmas of 2023, the romantic comedy Anyone but You became a sleeper hit, lingering in theaters and racking up hundreds of millions at the box office, thanks to its sexy stars and flirty banter. Now that it’s on Netflix, it’s likely to find a whole new audience and start a whole new round of conversation about what makes rom-coms exciting these days. But the steamy scenes and its stars’ off-screen chemistry isn’t what really makes the movie enjoyable — the real draw is the stellar supporting cast.

Directed by Will Gluck (Easy A, Friends with Benefits), Anyone but You is a (very) loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. The movie centers around law student Bea (Sydney Sweeney) and finance bro Ben (Glen Powell), two stubborn people who had one very good date that blew apart, thanks to miscommunication. Now they hate each other! But they’re pulled back into the same........

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