“I have never experienced anything like that,” says Bader. “I mean, my hands were, like, vibrating from the energy. It was so effusive.” Seconds Blyth, “It was totally crazy.”
The 29-year-old Bader—best known for the Prime Video series My Lady Jane and Tom Blyth, so sinister in the 2023 movie The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes—beat out hundreds of other actors to land their roles. (FYI, the British Blyth, 30, shows off an impressive American accent.) “Emily and Tom genuinely embodied these roles,” Brett Haley (All the Bright Places) tells Parade. “I didn’t want Poppy to be too broad or for Alex to be too much of the straight-man. So they brought a sense of three-dimensionality.”
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Tom Blyth: Alex sees in Poppy a version of himself that he wishes he could be, but resents that he can't. He’s slightly repressed at the beginning and doesn't quite know how to get out of his own head. And Poppy is so easily, like, liberated. But that becomes the thing that he loves about her and is addicted to.
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Bader: Stare into each other's eyes? I don't know, honestly. But I can tell pretty quickly if there’s going to be a connection. But it’s tough because sometimes there’s a time lag or the screen is blurry.
Bader: They were hoping we didn’t hate each other . . .
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Bader: Tom's really cool. He dresses really well. He's got, like, a cool little earring. He drives a motorcycle. We went to see the movie Speak No Evil on your motorcycle, and I thought that was the most European experience.
Bader: It was all of my European dreams come true.
Bader: I’m kicking him under the table right now.
Your own favorite vacation spots?
Emily Bader as Poppy and Tom Blyth as Alex in People We Meet on Vacation.Michele K. Short/Netflix
Bader: Hawaii for me.
Bader: I think it feels it's very cinematic in a way that we haven't seen recently with rom coms. I’m thinking of Nora Ephron and Nancy Meyers’movies. Emily's books have that appeal. The story is also very slice-of-life.
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Bader: Today, it’s Overboard.
So, do you think men and women can really be friends? In that movie, Harry insists that the sex always gets in the way.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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