For a long time, it seemed like the romantic comedy genre was dying out. Where were our 2010 versions of "Love Actually?" Or "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days?" Or "When Harry Met Sally?" These films are all classic when it comes to a laugh-out-loud story that will grip you in its will-they-won’t-they tale as two characters find their way to one another.
But, in the year of 2018, Netflix has come to our rescue. The media giant released "Set It Up," a modern rom-com, on June 15. The story follows Harper (Zoey Deutch), 25, and Charlie (Glen Powell), 28, as they attempt to set up their bosses in order to get more free time. But along the way … well, I won’t spoil it for you.
This film gets so many things right: For one, Harper isn’t just magically brilliant at her job with that one thing (read: romance) missing. Sure, she scrolls on dating apps late at night on her phone, but she’s much more concerned with impressing her boss. Second, her boss isn’t some awful jerk: Kirsten, played by Lucy Liuis harsh on the lead only to make outside obstacles feel that much easier. She’s a far cry from Miranda Priestly in "The Devil Wears Prada." And third: the leads have ridiculously good chemistry which makes viewers on the edge of their seats waiting for that get-together moment.
Whether or not you’ve seen the film, here is some on-screen and off-screen scoop you should know about the latest Netflix hit.
1. Zoey Deutch talked to real-life media assistants to get the scoop on the job.
Deutch appears to effortlessly embody the stressed-out assistant Harper. To get in the mindset of the character, she spoke with people who live that life.
"When I was researching the film and chatting to assistants, their stories were just insane," Deutch told ELLE Australia. "If you had to guess which ones were true or false, you’d never actually guess the real ones – it was always the worst ones that were true."
Deutch said that she liked talking to the assistants about their jobs and she thought the assistants felt it cathartic to divulge their work dramas to Deutch.
2. Some of the actors and people behind the cameras worked together previously.
Deutch and Powell acted together in the 2016 movie "Everybody Wants Some" They knew at one point they wanted to make a rom-com together. Director Claire Scanlon previously worked with Tituss Burgess ("Creepy Tim") on Netflix original series "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."
3. Scanlon wanted writer Katie Silberman to be on set.
"Why wouldn’t I want my writer to be on the set every single day, taking moments and running with them?" Scanlon told ET Online. Scanlon said that Burgess improvised with Silberman for a line he says while watching the elevator "meet cute" scene between Rick and Kirsten.
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