Alex Neustaedter chats with THR on the pink carpet for 'It Ends With Us' and shares the conversations he had with Brandon Sklenar about playing the role of Atlas. Plus, he reveals the most challenging scene to work through while filming.
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00:00There's such a huge fan base for this book, did you feel any pressure to get this role right?
00:06I felt like it was a really good opportunity to like connect deeply with it myself. I think
00:12everybody can connect to these characters in their own like unique ways and have these visions of it
00:18and I'm super aware of that but I knew for myself and like my process I needed to like find what
00:25was true to me and I really hope they like what I did but yeah that's that was kind of my process
00:30with it. And since then have you been able to have any conversations with Brandon about the role?
00:35Yeah I mean Brandon's the best, he's so funny, he's so sweet. I think we both love Atlas like
00:43I think as a character I feel so lucky to play someone with such a genuine good soul and good
00:50heart with the best intentions for everything they do and I you know I felt really lucky to
00:57be able to do that and Brandon's just amazing like it was really fun doing press stuff with him,
01:03baking cookies with him, even though I'm terrible at doing it but yeah it was fun.
01:08He's got to teach you right? He's got to teach me you know it evolves from the younger to the older
01:13you know. Some wise advice that he's given you. I also wanted to ask what was the most challenging
01:19scene for you to work through given that this is you know that we deal with some heavy topics
01:24in this film? Yeah I think well we started filming Isabella and I the garden scene and that's a
01:35really like pivotal scene and very intimate moment where we're really kind of sharing for the first
01:42time what we've been through and she's really opening up too and I think that's a really
01:48difficult thing to do on your first day but it's an amazing thing to like build that trust
01:53and the comfortability with each other so it was the most difficult but also the most rewarding
01:58because I think from there we knew we were like locked in and we're ready to play and
02:02be scene partners and and like give this our all.