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Interview: Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman · The Smallzy Show

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  Speaker 1: Let's get on the show tonight's guest, shall we? Lily Reinhart.
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  Speaker 1: You know her as Betty from Riverdale. She's teaming up
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  Speaker 1: with Tom Bateman. They are the two leads in this
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  Speaker 1: brand new movie that is called The Love Hypothesis. It's
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  Speaker 1: a New York Times bestseller. It's coming out on Prime
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  Speaker 1: Video next Wednesday, September 23. This thing has got so
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  Speaker 1: much hype. So much. Lily did these two TikTok videos
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  Speaker 1: announcing the movie. It's had more than 100 million views.
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  Speaker 1: They're Would you say they're gagging on this?
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  Speaker 2: Gagging.
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  Speaker 1: They're gagging. The movie is called The Love Hypothesis. It's
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  Speaker 1: a book as well. They're standing by in our London studio.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get them on right now.
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  Speaker 2: I accept your proposal to deceive your friend into believing
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  Speaker 2: that I'm your love interest.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds really bad when you put it like that.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, this is Tom Bateman.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, I'm Lily Reinhart.
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  Speaker 1: What are they doing?
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  Speaker 2: Please stop doing that.
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  Speaker 3: It's called flirting.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, Lily Reinhart, Tom Bateman. Hello to you both. Hi, hello.
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  Speaker 1: Hello to you.
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  Speaker 2: How's it going?
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  Speaker 1: I'm very good. How nervous are you with this movie
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  Speaker 1: coming out? Because the BookTok girlies, they've got opinions. Do they?
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  Speaker 1: They have opinions. Do they?
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  Speaker 3: They certainly do. I don't feel nervous.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: Because there's nothing I could do to change... anything at
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  Speaker 3: this point.
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  Speaker 2: We are where we are and it is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: I would say though, what I found, we just came
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  Speaker 2: back from Brazil and, and so it was the first
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  Speaker 2: time we got to like meet, meet the sort of
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  Speaker 2: fans of the book and hopefully the film. They are
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  Speaker 2: so beautifully enthusiastic about it. There's no sort of, there's
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  Speaker 2: no sort of like, this is how we want it.
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  Speaker 2: There was just love and enthusiasm for it and it really,
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  Speaker 2: I thought, my God, it's so, we're so fortunate to
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  Speaker 2: be able to play these characters that are so beloved
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  Speaker 2: by such a, wonderful fan base they're not um they're
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  Speaker 2: not it doesn't feel like they're saying mean stuff right
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  Speaker 2: they just seem really excited about.
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  Speaker 1: It so yeah not well nice i like that because
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  Speaker 1: i think when it's a book when something starts out
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  Speaker 1: as a book that has got like a cult following
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  Speaker 1: uh people have the characters visualization the moments in their
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  Speaker 1: head and how someone else sees that or how you
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  Speaker 1: two can bring that to life can it can be
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  Speaker 1: up for interpretation so i think everyone is sort of
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  Speaker 1: excited to see how that's going to land Tom, you
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  Speaker 1: are wearing a Notting Hill T-shirt. Dare I say, that
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  Speaker 1: is my all-time favorite rom-com.
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  Speaker 2: How could it not? I mean, it's one of the...
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  Speaker 2: I find it's almost impossible to choose a favorite rom-com
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  Speaker 2: or a favorite film, but no one does it like
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  Speaker 2: Richard Curtis. He just manages. I think there's such sort
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  Speaker 2: of lightness of touch, but like a beautiful depth to
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  Speaker 2: all of his characters. You're aware this sort of heart breaks,
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  Speaker 2: but you know it's all going to work out I
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  Speaker 2: don't know he just holds life so beautifully I love
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  Speaker 2: him and I thought.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah Lily what's your favorite rom-com because you've been doing
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  Speaker 1: these looks at the moment and damn girl you smoking.
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  Speaker 3: Oh these looks I was like to where am I looking.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no no you've been serving serving the looks thank.
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  Speaker 3: You say serving looks thank you I I love I
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  Speaker 3: love a lot of them I've said kind of a
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  Speaker 3: different answer for For everything. I love Uptown Girls. I
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  Speaker 3: love 13 Going on 30. I love, of course, can't
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  Speaker 3: think of any other ones right now, but also just Rome.
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  Speaker 1: Random fact for you, here in Australia, we called 13
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  Speaker 1: Going on 30 Suddenly 30 here in Australia. For some reason,
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  Speaker 1: they changed the name in Australia. Yeah, it's weird, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like we got a different version of the movie title.
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  Speaker 1: That also makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: You guys do like to abbreviate words, though, hey?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we drop... Oh, yeah. We drop everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We don't follow through with anything.
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  Speaker 2: Something about 30.
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  Speaker 1: Something. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Something 30.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've been asked about this, but I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to ask anyway. Chapter 16. Are you holding the book
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  Speaker 1: in your hand there? Because as you... Yeah, because I
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  Speaker 1: am a book talk girly.
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  Speaker 3: You're a book talk girly, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a book talk girly.
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  Speaker 2: Looks like he's doing an audio book of it.
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  Speaker 1: Her thighs tremble. She tried to open them wider to
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  Speaker 1: invite him inside. Maybe you should. Tell me. I could
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  Speaker 1: do sexier if you'd like. Oh, please. She nodded. They
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  Speaker 1: were two days to kiss with any kind of coordination
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  Speaker 1: by this point. Tell me. People are anxious to see
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  Speaker 1: how this comes to life. What was it like making
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  Speaker 1: that scene? Um... You both lost for words.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there was a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot that went into it. It was sort of a
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  Speaker 3: lot of preparation. We got together the weekend before we
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  Speaker 3: blocked it out. It's always, and I, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: hear people, actors say this all the time, but it
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  Speaker 3: really is a very choreographed thing. It's, it was not
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  Speaker 3: super specific on the page. So it was sort of, we,
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  Speaker 3: we went in with our intimacy coordinator and with Claire,
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  Speaker 3: our director, we basically just broke it down into however
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  Speaker 3: many beats there were. And, um, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to say it took our time making sure it
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  Speaker 3: felt right. And it mostly actually the scene leading up
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  Speaker 3: to it was the more important part to us because
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  Speaker 3: that's sort of where the emotions are building. And then
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  Speaker 3: so the actual coming together part and being physical with
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  Speaker 3: one another.
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  Speaker 1: I agree.
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  Speaker 3: Was, you know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was great because also, you know, you remember,
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  Speaker 2: like the reason it's such an important moment in the
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  Speaker 2: book and it's like what we're waiting for is these
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  Speaker 2: two people to finally be together acting as actors. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: there's the element of like, oh, you know, you're doing
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  Speaker 2: an intimate scene, but we're so well known. protected now
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  Speaker 2: and looked after and it's such a collaboration with intimacy
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  Speaker 2: coordinators it's looked at just like any other scene you
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  Speaker 2: know so um.
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  Speaker 1: Dare i say dare i say it's very unsexy albeit
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  Speaker 1: it comes together being very sexy yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Thank god for the editing process because it's really broken
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  Speaker 3: up in such small bite-sized little shots of course and
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  Speaker 3: especially when there's nudity you sort of have you you
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  Speaker 3: should or have to do it that way so.
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  Speaker 1: Well congratulations to you both I'm just going to go
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  Speaker 1: finish this right now. Yeah, go finish that book. Please
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  Speaker 1: come to Australia sometime. We would love to have you here,
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  Speaker 1: all right, both of you?
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  Speaker 3: We would love to come sometime.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.