Yes, Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney leaned into romance rumors to market ‘Anyone But You’

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he told the New York Times in an interview published on Tuesday.“That’s people wanting what’s on the screen off the screen, and sometimes you just have to lean into it a bit — and it worked wonderfully.”Last August, Sweeney opened up about the flick in an interview with Variety, saying, “It’s a rom-com.

That’s what people want! Glen and I don’t really care. We have so much fun together, and we respect each other so much.”While Sweeney was (and still is) engaged to restaurateur Jonathan Davino, Powell’s single status added fuel to the fling fire.Amid talk last April that Powell, 35, and then-girlfriend Gigi Paris were breaking up, she unfollowed Sweeney on Instagram, with popular gossip account DeuxMoi speculating that the relationship had been on the rocks in the months since filming with Sweeney began.“Gigi only unfollowed Sydney on social media because Sydney never followed her back.

This had nothing to do with Glen and Sydney. Gigi is aware that Glen and Sydney never hooked up,” a source told People at the time. “He takes his work very seriously and it was tough on the relationship.”Sweeney, 26, defended their close friendship — and addressed the cheating allegations — in the Variety interview. “Sometimes I feel beat up by it.

It’s hard to sit back and watch, and not be able to stand up for yourself,” she said.“Glen and I don’t really care,” Sweeney continued. “We have so much fun together, and we respect each other so much; he’s such a hard worker, and I’m a hard worker.”She said of the alleged affair headlines: “We talk all the time, like, ‘That’s really funny.’”Two months later during an appearance on the “Today” show, host Hoda Kotb asked the duo if there was “a little romance” between them.