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The new romcom One Night Only\u2014set in a dystopian future where premarital sex is illegal, except for an annual 12-hour bacchanalia\u2014is ostensibly all about Monica Barbaro<\/a> and Callum Turner\u2019s characters falling in love. However, the real romance plot on set turned out to be between Barbaro and her castmate Este Haim<\/a>. The pair became fast friends while making music together, improvising, and freezing their butts off in sub-zero New York City weather. That camaraderie bubbled over into a lengthy conversation about the film and their lives, where the pair touched on everything from bad exes and sexiest locales to\u00a0 being \u201cno-bra Nancies.\u201d But most importantly, they settled the eternal argument of the pros and cons dating in New York versus Los Angeles.<\/p>\n FRIDAY 1:00 PM JULY 17, 2026 NEW YORK CITY<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n BARBARO: Thank you for doing this, first of all.<\/p>\n HAIM: Any excuse, are you kidding me?<\/p>\n BARBARO: Where are you? You\u2019re in L.A. You\u2019re coming here [to New York] tomorrow.<\/p>\n HAIM: I heard it\u2019s orange where you are.<\/p>\n BARBARO: It\u2019s not as smoky today. It\u2019s a lot better. I feel so much trust in your hands. In fact, this is a great segue into it. The fact that you got me from, \u201cOh my God, I can\u2019t do this. Please don\u2019t ever make me sing again,\u201d to\u2014<\/p>\n HAIM: To, \u201cLet\u2019s go on.\u201d<\/p>\n BARBARO: One of my favorite moments filming this movie was when you, me, and Andrew Burnap were in the set that was the recording studio, but it felt like we were in a real recording studio, just trying out harmonies, throwing spaghetti at a wall and seeing what stuck. To get to do that with you, for one, is unreal. I still pinch myself because you\u2019re such a legend. I think I said, \u201cThis is literal heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n HAIM: I could be in that room with you guys every day just singing. Also, yeah, it was just so much fun to do arrangement stuff and have it really feel authentic. And when you guys did it live, that was real shit in real time. That\u2019s not easy.<\/p>\n BARBARO: Yeah, but I think you really set us up to win that moment.<\/p>\n HAIM: Well, honestly, anyone reading Interview right now that wants to hire me to just be on set and sing to them and hype them up, I will take that job. [Laughs] No, but dude, you kill it. You\u2019re also so much fun to be in the studio with.<\/p>\n BARBARO: Thank you so much for saying that because I feel like a debilitating lack of self-confidence in those spaces, and I\u2019m working on it. Eric Vetro, man, he\u2019ll lecture me all day about it.<\/p>\n HAIM: Oh my god.<\/p>\n BARBARO: Also an absolute legend and a confidence boost. He took me from a strep throat to belting notes I didn\u2019t know I could sing in one session.<\/p>\n HAIM: He\u2019s a wizard.<\/p>\n BARBARO: Yes. But to hesitate in that way and to know that can interrupt the creative process, that\u2019s the last thing on earth I want to do. So it means the world that you actually enjoy that process with me.<\/p>\n HAIM: I\u2019d make a record with you tomorrow.<\/p>\n BARBARO: I\u2019d die to do that. Oh, by the way, King Princess and you singing \u201cLove Is in the Air\u201d is so perfect, so brilliant.<\/p>\n HAIM: Thank you. Will Gluck had a lot of notes on that one. Let me tell you. Will\u2019s basically a musician, and he was like, \u201cIt feels too vacation.\u201d<\/p>\n BARBARO: In what way?<\/p>\n HAIM: I wanted to make it like we\u2019re going to party, one night only. And he was like, \u201cNo, it needs to be sexier.\u201d And I was like, \u201cVacation is sexy.\u201d<\/p>\n BARBARO: Vacation is when people have the most sex. [Laughs] But he wanted it to be sexier. And what did you do to create that?<\/p>\n HAIM: More guitar.<\/p>\n BARBARO: Let the record show, you\u2019re swiveling your shoulders more as well. [Laughs] More guitar and grooving and a little bit of tongue across the teeth.<\/p>\n HAIM: But I put a lot more percussion than he wanted. I mean, I\u2019m a fucking drummer. When we make our record\u2014<\/p>\n BARBARO: There\u2019s going to be a lot of drums.<\/p>\n HAIM: We just want people to dance.<\/p>\n BARBARO: Exactly. It\u2019s like the day that Nick Braun came in and made the entire crew burst out laughing mid-production, and suddenly we were like, \u201cOh no, have any of us been funny enough?\u201d Because that\u2019s what happens when someone\u2019s truly, deeply funny. Similarly, musically, it\u2019s like, \u201cEste, we got to put a cap on you because other people are going to sing in this movie.\u201d<\/p>\n HAIM: Yeah, you\u2019re really taking people to Sandals with this. [Laughs] But again, he\u2019s right. That\u2019s why he\u2019s brilliant. In my mind, I was like, where do I like to get romantic and sexual with my partner\u2014<\/p>\n BARBARO: In warm weather on a beach.<\/p>\n HAIM: And instead of on a beach, we did it in a giant city. And at the time, it was two degrees, but we were supposed to make it seem like it was 100 degrees.<\/p>\n BARBARO: Hats off to you for filming that night. You, me, Ziwe, Callum [Turner]. The windiest night, so cold, and watching that scene, you truly cannot tell that it was that freezing.<\/p>\n HAIM: Thank you.<\/p>\n BARBARO: The bloopers sell us out because Callum could not remember to say the word \u201cwhy.\u201d And we were standing there just begging him to say it, just standing there in the freezing cold.<\/p>\n HAIM: Like, \u201cCome on, my guy.\u201d I couldn\u2019t feel my eyeballs. I had warmers in places where they say on the packaging, \u201cDo not put warmers in these places.\u201d I basically was wearing hand warmer underwear because I wasn\u2019t wearing pants.<\/p>\n BARBARO: Knees knocking together, shivering. Also, you and Ziwe, I would watch the spinoff of you guys at the door.<\/p>\n HAIM: I fell in love with her the minute I met her, in the same way that I did with you. Everyone on set was so fun and nice and cool, it reminded me of kids I went to high school with. Can you tell me when you met Callum for the first time?<\/p>\n BARBARO: It was a rehearsal day with Will and, I mean, Will\u2019s such a nerd. He had a computer hooked up to the TV so that we could see in real time how he was editing. We were making so much fun of him. But again, it\u2019s like that high school camaraderie, familial, gentle ribbing at every turn in just the sweetest, most wholesome way.<\/p>\n HAIM: One hundred percent. And I feel the same way about making records. You know how you can hear when people are having fun on a record?<\/p>\n BARBARO: Yeah.<\/p>\n HAIM: Any Talking Heads record, you\u2019re like, \u201cThey were just jamming and having the best time in the studio.\u201d I felt the same way about being on set on One Night Only. The vibe was just people playing around, being silly with one goal in mind, which was to make people laugh and, hopefully, get a little horny.<\/p>\n BARBARO: Always. I couldn\u2019t agree more. I\u2019ve screened this movie twice now at different stages of post. Both times, I remember feeling this surge of energy and feeling like I want to hang out with these people more. And I hope that translates for people who aren\u2019t in it, but I think what you\u2019re saying is so true. You were like, \u201cOh, I kind of want to live in that world without the mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n HAIM: Without the mandate, for sure. [Laughs]<\/p>\n BARBARO: That\u2019s an absolutely miserable mandate, but these people find a way to live their lives and have fun in spite of it.<\/p>\n HAIM: Exactly. I mean, I had a self-inflicted mandate. I did celibacy for two years, which was\u2014<\/p>\n BARBARO: To prepare for this role?<\/p>\n HAIM: Yeah.<\/p>\n BARBARO: You\u2019re so dedicated. [Laughs]<\/p>\n HAIM: You thought Callum was method with his, \u201cI\u2019m going to be an American\u201d accent.<\/p>\n BARBARO: He\u2019s got nothing on you.<\/p>\n HAIM: He\u2019s so sweet. And talking to him about football, he\u2019s so passionate about it.<\/p>\n BARBARO: I know, he\u2019s especially great in that he\u2019s a cinephile, but also doesn\u2019t take himself too seriously. You\u2019re not fighting his ego to get him to listen to you. He rolls with the punches. Just put a game in front of him.<\/p>\n HAIM: Then you\u2019ll get the best performance. It\u2019s not wearing the clothes, it\u2019s\u2014<\/p>\n BARBARO: You want deep love? Yeah. It is not Tits McGee, it\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n HAIM: I mean, I\u2019m Tits McGee right now. I realize we\u2019re both sans bra today.<\/p>\n BARBARO: How did you know that? I\u2019m not even in frame.<\/p>\n HAIM: Oh, babe, I can tell.<\/p>\n BARBARO: [Laughs] You can just feel it.<\/p>\n HAIM: I know another no-bra Nancy. I hate bras. I want to let them out. I want the puppies to be out of the cage forever.<\/p>\n BARBARO: Same.<\/p>\n HAIM: There was a lot of that in the movie, by the way.<\/p>\n BARBARO: There was.<\/p>\n HAIM: There\u2019s so many different elements to rom-coms that I love. There\u2019s obviously the falling in love part, the meet-cute, but I also love movies that give us not a normal rom-com story.<\/p>\n BARBARO: [Will] really threaded the needle of having it be just sexy enough, just wholesome enough, and also ridiculous but grounded. It still feels like a rom-com, but it feels just dangerous enough. It\u2019s absolutely rated R, but you don\u2019t feel like you\u2019re being pummeled with it. It turns you on, but it\u2019s more titillating than it is just overt sex.<\/p>\n HAIM: Correct. It\u2019s romantic.<\/p>\n BARBARO: It\u2019s romantic, at the end of the day.<\/p>\n HAIM: I think New York is also such an amazing place to set a movie like this. I mean, I met my husband in New York.<\/p>\n BARBARO: Aw, sweet.<\/p>\n HAIM: I\u2019m trying to get all my girlfriends to move to New York because dating there and meeting people, the second you walk outside the door, you\u2019re in it. You\u2019re in the flow.<\/p>\n BARBARO: You\u2019re possible.<\/p>\n HAIM: It\u2019s different from L.A. because the second you walk outside, you\u2019re in your car. Like me, myself, and I listening to my tunes, which I love. But if you\u2019re a single guy or gal, it\u2019s tough. Is there a favorite city for you to go out?<\/p>\n BARBARO: The most fun nights out have been in New York. I sometimes wonder if that\u2019s because I always dream of coming back and living in New York. I actually go through depressive withdrawals every time I leave. I felt that way in December when we finished filming. It\u2019s a super romantic city. It\u2019s so fun to go on dates in this city.<\/p>\n HAIM: I was with my friend Nicole in New York a week and a half ago. I\u2019ve never seen this happen in L.A. Literally, a guy got off the subway and she was walking past him. They both break their neck to look at each other. We keep walking and I\u2019m like, \u201cNicole, do you think that guy was hot?\u201d And she was like, \u201cThe guy\u2019s so hot.\u201d And I literally turn around and I go, \u201cHey!\u201d<\/p>\n BARBARO: Amazing.<\/p>\n HAIM: \u201cDo you think my friend\u2019s hot?\u201d [Laughs]<\/p>\n BARBARO: We all need an Este with us.<\/p>\n HAIM: I am a relentless wing woman. Relentless.<\/p>\n BARBARO: That doesn\u2019t surprise me in the slightest. I actually am, too.<\/p>\n HAIM: Well, he turns around and he goes, \u201cYeah.\u201d<\/p>\n BARBARO: And?<\/p>\n HAIM: \u201cOh, you guys should exchange numbers.\u201d And he goes, \u201cOkay.\u201d<\/p>\n BARBARO: Incredible.<\/p>\n HAIM: They literally start talking. They\u2019re both in film. They have so much in common. They do the little bumpy thing with their phone.<\/p>\n BARBARO: You\u2019re like, these two losers airdrop with a bump. That\u2019s how compatible they are. [Laughs]<\/p>\n HAIM: If that\u2019s not sexual, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n BARBARO: To live in a world where that is possible is so exciting. It just makes life a little bit more of an adventure, to have something like that happen in person.<\/p>\n HAIM: I felt like I was watching a rom-com. This is a meet-cute and I\u2019m seeing it in real life. I was the quirky sidekick. But again, I\u2019ve never really experienced that in L.A.<\/p>\n BARBARO: It feels more serendipitous too in New York because I actually weirdly run into friends here more than anywhere else. It just feels really tapped into the universe, telling you you need to see or meet this person. I feel like that quality is also very real in the movie. I mean, Callum loves to say that it\u2019s this cosmic joke that they keep running into each other over and over again.<\/p>\n HAIM: I call that people being on your subway car.<\/p>\n BARBARO: Wait, what do you mean?<\/p>\n HAIM: Well, if there\u2019s someone that you keep running into, I\u2019d like to think that it\u2019s the universe not letting you let go of this connection, doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s romantic.<\/p>\n BARBARO: Amazing.<\/p>\n HAIM: I\u2019ve had two breakups where I never want to see the person again.<\/p>\n BARBARO: Yeah, same.<\/p>\n HAIM: Everyone else was chill.<\/p>\n BARBARO: Mostly totally fine. What a gift.<\/p>\n HAIM: You know what? I think that\u2019s really a testament to how sweet, nice, and kind you and I are.<\/p>\n BARBARO: See, this is an Este conversation. I walk away feeling so much better about myself and everyone. I like you more, I like myself more. I like my exes more. [Laughs]<\/p>\n HAIM: And the world is new.<\/p>\n BARBARO: It\u2019s all going to be fine.<\/p>\n HAIM: And I\u2019m going to fly to New York tomorrow.<\/p>\n BARBARO: And we\u2019re going to go to a game.<\/p>\n HAIM: I think we should go into New York and recreate some meet-cutes. I think that we need to have our own version of what happened to my friend Nicole. Listen, I\u2019m married, but just because I\u2019m vegan doesn\u2019t mean I can\u2019t look at the whole menu. You know what I mean?<\/p>\n BARBARO: [Laughs] Just setting up individuals. We terrorize the city. \u201cYou guys should date!\u201d They\u2019re like, \u201cThis is my brother.\u201d \u201cOops, so sorry\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n HAIM: I do think there is this really amazing energy about New York where you run into the people that are supposed to be in your life. Same as in the movie, it\u2019s like you guys cannot stay away from each other. Try as you might, try as you may, but there\u2019s something that keeps bringing you guys back together.<\/p>\n BARBARO: I think that\u2019s also just a beautiful part of love too, is realizing when you\u2019re apart from a person how much you miss them and how things make you think of them, and just wanting to hang out with them again.<\/p>\n HAIM: Dude, that\u2019s how I felt when I met my husband and we were doing long distance.<\/p>\n BARBARO: It\u2019s a sad feeling, but also it\u2019s a great feeling.<\/p>\n HAIM: It is. Also, by the end of the movie, your guys\u2019 chemistry is just so palpable. It\u2019s like you want to jump into the movie.<\/p>\n BARBARO: I feel that with friends too, I want a deeper connection with people.<\/p>\n HAIM: Yeah, dude. I\u2019m like, \u201cTell me about seventh grade.\u201d That\u2019s usually my first question. A traumatic time of your life. \u201cWhat happened to you?\u201d<\/p>\n BARBARO: Let\u2019s draw a bond right away.<\/p>\n HAIM: Oh yeah, my mom didn\u2019t let me shave my legs. So boys would get the free razors in the nurse\u2019s office and throw them at me and tell me to shave my legs.<\/p>\n BARBARO: [Gasps] That\u2019s horrific.<\/p>\n HAIM: And they\u2019d yell, \u201cGet a Schick.\u201d<\/p>\n BARBARO: Oh my god.<\/p>\n HAIM: Anyway, go see One Night Only.<\/p>\n BARBARO: And keep hanging out with us. We\u2019ll do episode two another time.<\/p>\n HAIM: Coming next summer.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t![\"Monica](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260715_Monica_Barbaro_Luisa_Opalesky_33-scaled.jpg\")
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