{"id":180691,"date":"2025-09-30T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/180691\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T19:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:03:08","slug":"meet-tom-blyth-emily-bader-in-people-we-meet-on-vacation-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/180691\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Tom Blyth, Emily Bader in People We Meet On Vacation trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex and Poppy aren\u2019t a thing\u2014or so they insist in the first trailer for People We Meet On Vacation<\/a> in a way that makes it clear they\u2019ve had to do this many, many times before. Despite the fact that it\u2019s nearly impossible for the people they meet on vacation to buy the polar-opposite duo played by Tom Blyth and Emily Bader as \u201cplatonic travel companions,\u201d it\u2019s a good thing it takes them so long to start doubting it themselves. Otherwise it would just be a story about two hot people going on exotic vacations together, which\u2014while lovely\u2014wouldn\u2019t be much of a movie.<\/p>\n

Emily Henry fans will know, however, that the prolific romance author never makes it that easy for her protagonists. Alex and Poppy don\u2019t start the film or the 2021 novel that inspired it as enemies (those stories are coming), but they still face their fair share of obstacles as they jetset together around the world. \u201cFree-spirited Poppy and routine-loving Alex have been unlikely best friends for a decade, living in different cities but spending every summer vacation together,\u201d the film\u2019s synopsis reads. \u201cThe careful balance of their friendship is put to the test when they begin to question what has been obvious to everyone else\u2014could they actually be the perfect romantic match?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The trailer goes out of its way to emphasize just how \u201cfree-spirited\u201d Poppy is. She sings out loud in the airport when she sees her bag on the carousel! She wants to \u201cwing it\u201d on one of their trips instead of using an itinerary! She has blue hair! Alex, in contrast, is just kind of\u2026 there. Blyth, who broke out in 2023\u2019s The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes, has been pretty charismatic in the past, however, so we\u2019ll see what he can bring to the character whenever that \u201croutine-loving\u201d facade starts to crack.<\/p>\n

Emily Henry’s People We Meet On Vacation finds its stars, and more casting news of the week<\/a><\/p>\n

People We Meet On Vacation is directed by Brett Haley from a script by Yulin Kuang<\/a>, Amos Vernon, and Nunzio Randazzo. If this isn\u2019t your favorite Henry novel (or if you\u2019ve never read Henry but aren\u2019t a huge fan of the friends-to-lovers trope), don\u2019t worry. There are plenty more coming down the pike. Adaptations of Beach Read (directed by Kuang), Funny Story, Book Lovers, and Happy Place are all in the works, leaving only Henry\u2019s latest, Great Big Beautiful Life<\/a>, un-optioned. That book only came out a few months ago, though, so it probably won\u2019t be long.<\/p>\n

For now, People We Meet on Vacation premieres January 9 on Netflix.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex and Poppy aren\u2019t a thing\u2014or so they insist in the first trailer for People We Meet On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-180691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}