Jason Orley’s I Want You Back, out on Feb. 11 on Amazon Prime Video, offers all the classic rom-com tropes you could hope for, with an exceptionally comedically talented cast to round it out. When Peter (Charlie Day) and Emma (Jenny Slate) are dumped by their respective partners (Scott Eastwood and Gina Rodriguez), they’re crushed to see their exes quickly move on with new partners (Clark Backo and Manny Jacinto), and quickly hatch a plan to make their exes realize what they’re missing. Of course, that plan involves working closely together for weeks, during which they just might realize — well, no spoilers here. You’ll want to see the chemistry play out for yourself. And speaking of things you’ll want to see for yourself: Jenny Slate and Charlie Day gave us an exclusive peek at their rom-com chemistry in the full video interview above, complete with personal breakup stories, details on their daily phone calls to each other, and some hit-or-miss co-star trivia.
In keeping with the hijinx of the film, SheKnows Video VP Reshma Gopaldas kicked things off with this question for Day and Slate: What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done to get an ex back? For Slate, that’s a no-go — she doesn’t consider anything she’s done in the name of love to be all that crazy.
“I think maybe just a really weepy phone call?” Day offers. “Like a real sad begging kind of situation…That’s about as nuts as it got with me.”
And while heartbreak leads to big laughs in I Want You Back, Day and Slate have a tougher time making light of it in their own personal lives: “It’s not funny when you get dumped,” Day says, astutely. “It’s super un-funny.”
“Remember that time when I packed all my stuff into a too-small duffel bag and was like ‘I’ll come back for the rest’ and I was really upset?” Slate tells in a faux-joking tone.
Yeah, okay. Maybe real-life heartbreak is hard to joke about — but Peter and Emma’s onscreen travails are anything but. Check out I Want You Back on Amazon Prime Video starting Feb. 11, and watch our full interview above!
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