But new film You, Me and Tuscany very much fits the bill. The movie stars The Little Mermaid's Halle Bailey as ambitious young cook Anna, who impulsively heads to Tuscany after spending the night with an Italian man who off-handedly told her she was welcome to stay in his villa if ever she was in Italy.
The film is very much of a piece with from the old-school brand of escapist, sun-soaked romcoms – complete with no shortage of cheese – and speaking with Radio Times ahead of release, the two stars explained why it was so important for a film like this to have two Black leads.
"Like, real stories... our lives," Bailey agreed. "It's beautiful to see on screen, and I'm grateful to be a part of this and have two Black leads in a romcom that's in theatres. Like, it's a big deal, and I just hope people resonate with it and take something away."
"You've got to show people that absolutely everyone has both the right and the possibility of going out and living life to its absolute fullest on the widest lens," he explained.
Interestingly, Page and Bailey had been the only two names even considered for the roles of Michael and Anna, with director Kat Coiro describing the casting process as "horrifying" given their lack of back-ups.
"In a lot of movies, you'll have a list," she told Radio Times. "We didn't have a list. It was Halle and it was Regé. Period, End of story."
"They're both obviously incredibly good looking people, that helps," he said. "They're both very serious actors who take their craft seriously. And so the first table read, you could tell that they were finding the rhythm, because it's all about a rhythm when you talk about two leads and chemistry."
"They're opposites, and their characters are opposites," Coiro agreed. "You know, Anna is this fly by the seat of her pants, chaos demon. And then Michael is very grounded and kind of staid and almost stiff in his workaholism and his dedication to family. And they kind of upend each other's lives in the best way."
View oEmbed on the source website"Halle is so charming, so full of light, so full of joy," he said. "She's so easy to root for that I think that is so rare and so valuable. I wanted audiences to take that journey with [her], because it's a universal story.
"That's the undertone of every good romcom to me. And so doing that with Halle in Tuscany, in the sun, in the vineyards, rolling through the hills in a convertible... please!"
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