EXCLUSIVE! The Idea Of You: Reid Scott reveals audiences' first reaction to his character, says, 'I got booed in the best possible way'

Director Michael Showalter’s breezy rom-com The Idea Of You featuring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine alongside Ella Rubin and Reid Scott is finally arriving on Amazon Prime Video tomorrow. While the excitement around the film is sky-high, in an exclusive conversation with Firstpost, Ella and Reid opened up about the first reaction of the film and their thought’s on people’s orthodox mindset.

Initial reactions from friends, cinegoers and family

Ella Rubin: Oh, that’s such a good question. It is so funny to like have something kind of explode in this way and sort of be like, you made it a year and a half, two years ago, and then you’re kind of getting this like second wave of. I mean, this wave of like a wonderful feeling of just getting to, you know, we got to enjoy making it so much that now I’m getting to enjoy watching people watch it is this thing that I’ve never really experienced in this way. And so, yeah, I’m just enjoying people being excited and I think I’m really looking forward to them being pleased or shocked or whatever by the film. Sorry, Reid, but yeah, it’s been kind of amazing from the very first moments that I heard that it was the most-watched trailer on Amazon.

Reid Scott: I was like, Oh, wow. All right, something’s really happening here. And, you know, Ella and I, we were together with the rest of the cast in Austin for the film festival for South by. And the audience reaction was incredible. I don’t think any of us really expected that we’d all seen the movie and knew that we had a really good movie on our hands. But the way the audience just, you know, they laughed at they laughed at things that we didn’t even know were funny. And they, you know, they really I got booed in the best possible way. It was really cool. It was really cool. It’s the kind of movie that, you know, you really enjoy watching with other people. It’s really fun.

Despite being so advanced and belonging to the modern age, we have we still have those orthodox mindsets when a relationship is targeted due to the age gap. What’s your take on that?

Ella Rubin: I think we’re at this really interesting inflection point where just being open to different perspectives and different points of view, different lifestyles, you know, the alternative choices, although, you know, they really shouldn’t be deemed alternative. At any point, I think just being aware about being aware, if that makes sense, is something that’s like, it’s really catching hold. And it’s, you know, I don’t want to speak for Ella, but for my, for my part, it’s been really fun to be part of a movie that even in its own small way is sort of furthering, honestly, any kind of conversation. It’s just fun to be part of something that actually has a social impact and a social commentary, you know, and it’s nice to be able to deliver it in a package like this, which is, you know, it’s funny. It’s sexy. You know, it’s got heart and all these things, too. It’s, it’s rare. It’s rare, but it’s really, you know, it’s very satisfying to be part of something like that.

Reid Scott: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you’re completely right. And also, like, it’s, it’s just like calling out a double standard and, but I feel like often it’s, it’s not this movie that, you know, that the, you know, it’s calling out this double standard and then that’s sort of the main focus. It’s like, there’s so much happening. And then that’s also going on is like, this, this, like, it’s not even like a, like, this is the message. It’s just like, through a great story, you get this, you get this message. And like, it’s so very organically and naturally. Yeah, yeah, it’s like so much more not just not palatable is not the word, but so much more like you feel it so deeply because it’s not the point isn’t to say that the point is to tell an amazing story that happens to say that halfway. You know what I mean? I’m not answering this correctly. But yes, it’s very exciting to be a part of something that in any way kind of moves the needle for, like, women and women above like 16.