Not a couple.
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Sydney Sweeney doesn’t want the credit for it Anyone But You‘s buzzy press tour. The PR for the 2023 rom-com foregrounded the leads’ offscreen chemistry — even while they were both in relationships at the time. But Sweeney now says that it was unintentional, even if it did turn her movie into a sleeper hit. “Honestly, the press did it themselves,” she claimed Variety in an October 27 interview. “There was no leaning in, for that.”
“Truly the tabloids and journalists just created it and kept going,” she said. “Even if we were just standing next to each other, it was ‘They’re standing two inches apart!’” Instead of presenting it as a calculated gambit, Sweeney theorized that the hubbub was because “Glen and I genuinely care for each other and have a love and respect for each other another … And I think people just truly saw a really beautiful pairing.”
After the press tour, Sweeney and Glen Powell continued to make light of their offscreen chemistry. up during time Saturday Night Live monologueshe attempted to introduce her fiancé, but the camera instead cut to Powell in the audience instead. (Sweeney and her fiancé ended up separating in May 2025and now she’s reportedly dating Scooter Braun.) But not everybody liked the jokes — Powell’s then-girlfriend, Gigi Paris, said she was “shattered” by the press on the July 10 episodes of the Too Much podcast: “Later on, it turned out that it was all — I don’t know if there was a relationship there or not, but then they came out to say it was all a PR scheme at the expense of our relationship.”
Paris was referring to quotes from the actors themselves about sweetening the press tour. “The two things that you have to sell a rom-com are fun and chemistry. Sydney and I have a ton of fun together, and we have a ton of effortless chemistry,” Powell told the New York Times in April 2024 to explain the success of the film. “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. Sydney is very smart.” Sweeney added that she was very involved with the marketing, telling the Times that “I was on every call.” So was there “no leaning in” like Sweeney said, or were they willing to “lean into it a bit” like Powell said? We’ll have to wait until the sequel to find out.
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