Netflix’s latest flick “Set It Up” is being heralded for resurrecting the rom-com. Earning praise from audiences and critics alike, ET Canada was on the New York set of the modern romance with Glen Powell and Zoey Deutch last year as the stars revealed it took them three years to find a project they could work on together.
“This was like the exact movie we wanted to make together,” Deutch says. After appearing in 2016’s “Everybody Wants Some” the two friends searched for another fun script to team up on.
“Three years later it’s happening so it’s kinda surreal. There have been many moments where we look at each other and are like ‘We’re doing it!'” she says.
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In the romantic comedy, Deutch and Powell play two assistants who hope to set up their single bosses so they can have some more free time to themselves. For Powell, matchmaking isn’t exactly a skill he’s honed off-screen.
“I’m pretty bad at setting people up,” he confesses.
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“I think it’s a lot of responsibility because if things don’t go well it’s almost like…you know when you’re at a party and you want to show someone a YouTube video because you’re like, ‘This is funny!’ and then you show them and they don’t laugh, you take responsibility and are like, ‘I didn’t make it’ but it still feels like your fault because they didn’t think it’s funny. That’s what it’s like when you try to set someone up and it doesn’t work out.”
“You’re still trying to figure out how to fit in at parties,” Powell teases.
