You might already know that Oscar-winners Ke Huy Quan (the very best a part of All the things In every single place All at As soon as) and Ariana DeBose (West Aspect Story) lead the cost in Love Hurts, which has been launched simply in time for the Valentine’s Day leadup. However there’s and spectacular variety of different beloved performers that assist spherical out the ensemble as effectively — Marshawn Lynch, Sean Astin, Rhys Darby, Cam Gigandet. Arguably higher than all of them are Lio Tipton (Loopy, Silly, Love) as a receptionist and Mustafa Shakir (Ghosted) as a mercenary. Actually, Tipton has a humorous little dynamic reverse Shakir of their new action-comedy, and MovieWeb not too long ago caught up with them to study extra.
“That was a dream as a result of actually, like, it is such a ridiculous tone, and it may be actually onerous to set, and dealing with Mustafa to make it possible for we felt like all the things we did, even when it was over-the-top and type of ridiculous, felt grounded to us and that we felt like our characters actually believed it,” Tipton informed us, including:
“Mustafa reads individuals in an insane manner. Like, I’ve by no means been one for, you realize, type of like studying energies and issues like that, however Mustafa is somebody who can simply look into your soul. I imply, his eyes are simply piercing anyway, however he makes use of them, and he actually simply, like, seems to be into your soul. So if you’re performing throughout from him, I do not know, it was an exquisite, collaborative, actually distinctive expertise. I imply, actually, working with him was the very best.”
Working with Ke Huy Quan: “Let’s Have Enjoyable”
Love Hurts
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- Launch Date
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February 7, 2025
- Director
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JoJo Eusebio
- Writers
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Matthew Murray, Josh Stoddard, Luke Passmore
After which, in fact, there’s leading-man Quan, with whom Tipton’s eccentric Love Hurts character Ashley additionally has a deliciously foolish dynamic. Ashley is the assistant to Marvin (Quan) and will get caught up in all of the insanity as soon as Marvin’s world is abruptly flipped the wrong way up. “It was really easy working with Ke. He genuinely is without doubt one of the kindest, greatest those who I’ve labored with,” mentioned Tipton. “The forged generally, the forged and crew had been simply actually spectacular. And the set, that is only a fantastic workspace dynamic.”
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Tipton continued:
“The primary day of capturing is at all times, to me, actually intense. You simply by no means know the circulation of issues. And I used to be thrown into the opening workplace scene, which is a giant walk-and-talk the place we movie all the things in a single take. And multitasking just isn’t my forte, so I used to be extraordinarily nervous about having to, like, maintain papers, transfer issues, and likewise hit my marks and do the traces. And fortunately, Ke is so full of sunshine that he made it actually comfy and a spot the place you had been inspired to experiment and to have enjoyable.”
“I believe that was the most important throughline of the manufacturing — similar to… ‘Let’s have enjoyable. If we’re not having enjoyable, the viewers just isn’t going to have enjoyable,'” added Lipton. “And so comedy type of got here simply due to that.” You’ll be able to see the throughline for your self now. From Common Photos, Love Hurts is now enjoying in theaters.