The “Titanic” callback in “Anyone but You” was originally much less involved

Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney wanted to make the moment extra.

We'll never let go of a good Titanic reference.

And lucky for us, the new romantic comedy Anyone but You has an epic one. As Bea (Sydney Sweeney) and Ben (Glen Powell) try to convince their families and friends that they're in a relationship, they go to the front of the boat on a harbor cruise to "do Titanic."

Making sure that their marks are watching, Bea climbs up onto the railing as Ben helps her raise her arms as they exchange famous lines from the movie, including the scene's iconic "I'm flying, Jack." But that callback wasn't always so in-depth.

"We originally were supposed to just stand there," Sweeney tells EW. "And then I was like, 'Let's just go for it.' Me saying the line, our hands going up, all of that was just Glen and I goofing off."

Powell elaborates, noting that the moment arose from the playful atmosphere co-writer and director Will Gluck creates on his sets. "With a movie like this, you always start with a script and you find these moments, and then you start finding life within them," the actor says. "It's like, 'Okay, we're going to have Titanic. What is the actual game here? What are the people watching us looking at, and what are they feeling?'

"I rarely came to set memorizing any line because I knew they'd be thrown out immediately," Powell continues. "[Gluck's] sets are very much living, breathing organisms, and if you feel something or if you feel like the audience needs something or there's something funny, he's the first one to support that. So that Titanic moment really came a lot from Sydney and I being literally strapped to the front of this boat so that we didn't fall in Sydney Harbor and riffing for a bit. That was all at 3 in the morning at Sydney Harbor. We were delirious, so all that stuff was us throwing stuff against the wall to see if it would be fun."

For Sweeney, the scene is a testament to what a great time the entire cast had making the movie.
"I'm glad that we ended up putting it in the cut," she says. "It really shows the chemistry and the fun that we had."

Too bad the movie moment ends with Bea falling off the boat. But don't worry, there's enough room on a buoy for the both of them.

Anyone but You is in theaters now.

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