Mary Beth Barone & Joe Alwyn to Star in Rom-Com 'Still We Met' — SkimNews
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- Mary Beth Barone wrote and will star opposite Joe Alwyn in the romantic comedy "Still We Met," loosely inspired by her own experiences and marking her feature screenwriting and acting debut.
- Zackary Drucker makes her narrative feature directorial debut on the film, in which a young woman at a crossroads spends one unforgettable night wandering New York with a charming British stranger.
- Production is set to begin this fall in New York, with Jack Heller and Caitlin de Lisser-Ellen producing for Assemble Media alongside Alex Bach and Daniel Powell of Irony Point.
- Lena Dunham and Michael Cohen are exec producing under their Good Thing Going banner — the company behind Dunham's recent Netflix series "Too Much" — with Madison Wolk and Blake Mars co-producing.
- Barone currently writes and stars opposite Benito Skinner in Amazon/A24's "Overcompensating" (Season 2 recently wrapped) and debuted her Netflix hour-long special "Galaxy Brain" in the streamer's Top 10.
- Alwyn comes off Oscar-winning "Hamnet" and Golden Globe-winning "The Brutalist," with upcoming turns in Sam Esmail's "Panic Carefully" (with Julia Roberts) and Apple TV's "The Husbands."
Why it matters: The project extends Barone's pipeline beyond streaming TV (Amazon/A24's "Overcompensating," Netflix's "Galaxy Brain") into a feature she both wrote and headlines, while pairing her with Alwyn at the height of his post-"Brutalist" prestige run; Drucker's narrative-feature debut and Dunham's Good Thing Going involvement further signal indie-rom-com credibility.
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