Regé-Jean Page will soon be returning to his romantic roots with the upcoming rom-com You, Me & Tuscany starring Halle Bailey — and the film’s genre is part of the reason he signed on for the role.
With many recent thinkpieces and opinions expressed by Hollywood regarding the supposed death of the rom-com, the Emmy-nominated Bridgerton alum told People recently in an interview that the misconception informed his decision.
“It might have been that. The idea that the rom-com is dead,” he said. “Love definitely isn’t dead. Love will save us. And I think that I’m happy to wave that flag.”
In You, Me & Tuscany, Anna (Bailey) impulsively jets off to the Italian countryside to stay in a stranger’s villa sans permission. When she’s caught by the man’s mother, she pretends to be her son’s fiancée. The lie soon spirals out of control and becomes a problem when she begins falling for Michael (Page), the man’s cousin.
“We shot in Tuscany. It was Rome, five or six weeks in Tuscany. We were just out in the sunshine, driving through vineyards. I ran my hand through that field of wheat that Russell Crowe goes through at the beginning of Gladiator. Food was incredible,” Page described of the shoot.
“And I got to work with Halle Bailey every day,” he added. “So we were just having a great time. We were having a great time making a movie about stepping into your best life.”
Page told the publication that that’s “a lot of what rom-coms are about.”
“They’re about having aspirations,” the Black Bag and The Gray Man actor explained. “About having aspirations that you can step into your best life through trusting other people, through discovering how to solve your problems with other… how to talk through your problems. Every movie doesn’t have to be who punches hardest. So I’m conscious about talking it out and finding peace with yourself and other people. And it was a joy to do that.”
The Universal Pictures and Will Packer Productions movie — which opens in theaters April 10 — is directed by Kat Coiro from Ryan Engle’s screenplay based on an original idea by Ryan Engle and Kristin Engle.
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