Tom Bateman

Um, but thankfully, Amazon Prime saved us with the movie of The Love Hypothesis, which was directed by Clare Scanlon and based off of a novel written by Ali Hazelwood.

She was also one of the writers of the film, along with Sarah Rothschild, starring Lily Reinhart and Tom Bateman as the main characters.

Yes.

So much fun.

I'll allow it, 'cause they are cute together.

They really are.

And then of course, uh, she ends up meeting, I don't even wanna say antagonist, but like the, the plot point, you know, of the story, which is this guy named Tom.

And he, uh, Tom Benton, and he is-

I think that's, like, the... awesome thing about their rom-coms from the 90s and the early 2000s they were all freaking funny and like this one delivered on that aspect and i'm so happy with that what was your favorite part uh oh i think the music hilarious uh it's particular because like adam has his own like imperial march derivative song when he's kind of walking menacing so freaking funny um it just I think they did a really good job with the music as a whole like I in general and they were they played it really well and I think even Olive has like her own like rel style type of music theme too which I thought it was really lovely and it was a really nice nod to the origins of the story which is like a Reylo fanfic which is pretty awesome

yeah I think that is the kind of thing that Amazon does understand is that like you wouldn't know if you had no experience with Ali's books that it's a nod to the imperial march when tom bateman is walking around like he has like a very star wars soundtrack but they know for the people that do know that this book came from raylo fanfic that is going to thrill them and so like it works in the context of the movie as a standalone thing but it also works as like a little kind of like easter egg for the book community and i loved that they did that yeah What was your favorite part of the book of the movie? I think the casting is perfection.

And particularly, you mentioned this, the really on on as Rachel Marsh's who plays on and her casting for me is perfect.

Her relationship with.

was like, way to go.

But yeah, I do think that is a moment where like, you do get the sense...

I don't know how much sexual chemistry Lily Reinhart and Tom Bateman had in real life.

Like, I know that Lily Reinhart is bisexual.

Like, I think he's a great actor.

I've already been a fan of his for a few years, so I l- I like everything that he does, Tom Bateman.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and it was so fun to see him play this type of role because I've seen him-

Mm

... like, piss off all of these people.

But I feel like Tom Bateman in this, he just went for it.

He's like, "I'm just gonna-

Ren

... and Rey, but the lead actor in Love Hypothesis, whose name is Tom Bateman-

Yes

... is married in real life to Daisy Ridley, the actress who played Rey.

that she's written a sequel.

She saw Tom Bateman and she went, yeah, we need that again.

No,

that's exactly, that's what she said to be fair in her Instagram.

Did you? No, not exactly Tom Bateman.

She couldn't be specific.

It's called The Two Body Problem and it's out on the 27th of February.

The movie, Love Hypothesis, just premiered on September 23rd on Amazon Prime Video.

Stars Lily Reinhart as Olive Smith, and Tom Bateman as Dr. Adam Carlson.

Critical and audience reception has been pretty steady, pretty, like, mid to positive.

It holds a 75% critic score on Rotten Tomato, 74 audience score.

... her being Olive.

Yeah.

I liked Tom Bateman.

I think the first ti- and listen, guys, I've, like, watched this movie now three times.

It- I'm not sold on the male lead.

I think his name is Tom Bateman.

He to me is very good-looking, but this is gonna be really...

He does an American accent, and it seems like his voice is very high-pitched.

So let's look at some ratings here.

So Rotten Tomatoes, 76% from the critics, 74% from the audience.

IMDb gave this movie 7 out of 10 stars.

Ashley, what's your letter grade for The Love Hypothesis?