‘Regretting You’ cast, director talk about Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel turned big-screen movie
NEW YORK (WABC) — From the pages of a best-selling novel to the big screen, “Regretting You” is the latest Colleen Hoover book to get the Hollywood treatment.
It’s a story of first love, second chances, and a mother and daughter torn apart by tragedy, along with the secret it reveals.
The story comes to life on the big screen with the help of McKenna Grace, Mason Thames, Scott Eastwood, Dave Franco, and Allison Williams.
Eyewitness News entertainment reporter Joelle Garguilo sat down with the cast and director to talk about the new film.
Joelle Garguilo: I was cheesing like a 13-year-old little girl watching this movie.
Dave Franco: We need it.
Allison Williams: I know. We are no strangers to making horror movies and things about big themes. It’s nice to be able to make a movie like this to just be like, go feel some stuff.
Garguilo: Can you guys just explain to the outside world what it is like being a part of the Colleen Hoover world? Like, just the opinions of casting characters that people have read in these books.
McKenna Grace: It’s always scary because you just like, yeah. Of course, you want everybody to like it, but you just wanna do, like, the book justice and you wanna do the fans justice. We tried to become as big of fans as the book as we could. That way, we could be, proud of what we put on the screen as fans.
Director Josh Boone loves a coming of age story, but for this film, he had a very personal reason for making it.
Josh Boone: I have a 14-year-old daughter, who is a massive reader. So, I mean, I sort of made this for her as well, I think, to make something, about mothers and daughters. And I don’t know. There’s not many movies like this in theaters anymore. So, it’s like, I’m just grateful Colleen wrote a book like this so we could have a movie about families in theaters and about mothers and daughters and about the things that actually matter to people.
Garguilo: And I was writing some things down. There was something, David. I think that your character said. It’s, when you hear a song and it wrecks you and it takes you back to this place. I’m curious for you. Do you have those songs?
Scott Eastwood: Oh, yeah.
Grace: “Sunday Kind of Love.”
Franco: Do you know Edwin McCain’s album “I’ll Be”?
Eastwood: The whole Sublime self-titled album.
Mason Thames: The “Spider-Man 2” soundtrack. Wow!
Williams: “The Macarena.”
Garguilo: Oh. Wait. What?
Williams: Like, I can picture my little body and learning that dance and that stage of life of, like, if I want any social capital whatsoever, I have to learn this dance.
Garguilo: In the spirit of the movie, romance face off. Greatest couples of all time. Okay? Jack and Rose or Noah and Ally?
Grace: Noah and Ally. Noah and Ally. Because she lets him die.
Williams/Franco: Jack and Rose.
Garguilo: Harry and Sally or Sam and Andy from “Sleepless in Seattle”?
Thames: I haven’t seen “Sleepless in Seattle” and “When Harry Met Sally.”
Grace: You haven’t seen “When Harry met Sally”?
Franco: Harry and Sally.
Williams: Sam and Andy.
Franco: Woah. I like it. I like it.
Garguilo: Morgan and Jonah or Clara and Miller?
Franco/Williams: Morgan and Jonah, baby. I hope the kids say the same thing.
Grace/Thames: Hey. Hey. Hey. Clara and Miller. You don’t need me to answer that. You know?
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