The Stars of ‘Along For The Ride’ Are Setting an Example for Young Women: ‘The Second You Become a Girls’ Girl, You’re Set’

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Sasha Urban editorFans of “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before,” beware. “Along for the Ride,” a new young adult film from writer-director Sofia Alvarez, is arriving on Netflix May 6, and the book-to-screen adaptation is one that definitely calls for a box of tissues.The film stars Emma Pasarow as Auden, a recent high school graduate who is spending the summer visiting her dad and stepmom in the beach town of Colby, where she knows no one and is still dealing with the fallout from her parents’ divorce.

She quickly makes a deep connection with Eli (Belmont Cameli), a fellow insomniac who shows Auden the joy she’s missing in her life on nightly escapades.

And although she has a rough start making friends with the other girls in town — a pre-existing trio by the names of Leah (Genevieve Hannelius), Esther (Samia Finnerty) and Maggie (Laura Kariuki) — they eventually bond after putting jealousy and bad first impressions aside, living the truest experience of being a teenager in between life stages, with nothing to lose except fear.

Variety sat down with the Pasarow, Hannelius, Finnerty and Kariuki, all of whom come from different backgrounds, but found themselves as closely bonded by the end of their summer shoot in North Carolina as their characters are in the movie.