Reese Witherspoon returns to her romantic comedy roots after spending the previous six years working largely on dramas. Her newest position is within the Netflix film Your Place or Mine, a contemporary love story that flips rom-com tropes by celebrating middle-aged relationships. The Oscar winner and Ashton Kutcher play 40-somethings experiencing the blunders of affection in tandem with the realities of center age.
“Has it actually been that lengthy? I didn’t cease on function. I don’t assume I’ll ever cease making romantic comedies,” Witherspoon informed Self-importance Truthful on the Your Place or Mine premiere in Los Angeles on Thursday night. “They’re essential to me. It’s my favourite style as a result of it makes individuals really feel good. This one is much more particular as a result of now we have completely different voices and completely different views telling the story. Our film is a few single mother in her 40s getting second possibilities and discovering love. You typically don’t see this in a romantic comedy.”
Your Place or Mine, streaming February 10 on Netflix, is about longtime buddies Debbie (Witherspoon) and Peter (Kutcher), whose friendship started with a one-night stand. Twenty years later, Debbie resides in Los Angeles and elevating her 13-year-old son, whereas commitment-phobic Peter resides in a swanky Brooklyn bachelor pad. The 2 are nonetheless extraordinarily shut and discuss day by day over FaceTime. Peter suggests they swap houses for per week in order that Debbie can take her ultimate examination in New York for her grasp’s diploma whereas he watches over her son in LA. This flip-flop leads the pair to come back to some main realizations about their emotions for one another.
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“Girls of their 40s deserve tales too. It’s essential to know that life doesn’t cease after 40,” mentioned Witherspoon. “My character has ambition and needs to actually really feel alive. You don’t should be in your 20s to really feel this, and I believe loads of ladies really feel that means once they’re my age. We need to see one thing that may be very grounded in actuality. Even with Ashton’s character, we present the realities of individuals of their 40s, and that is one thing that’s by no means even talked about, and I hope it modifications individuals’s perspective. Our story nonetheless has romance and escape, however we are attempting to mirror what we see in our on a regular basis lives and see it in motion pictures.”
Kutcher can be making a comeback of kinds in Your Place or Mine after an extended absence from the display. His final starring function movie position was as Steve Jobs in 2013, whereas his final main TV position was within the Netflix sitcom The Ranch in 2020. Throughout that point away, Kutcher started a second profession as a profitable tech investor, getting concerned early in corporations resembling Uber, Airbnb, and Spotify. In 2019 he was recognized with a uncommon autoimmune situation that left him unable to see, hear, and stroll. It took him a 12 months to recuperate. Now, he’s appearing once more—with a brand new perspective. He appeared in a supporting position within the drama Vengeance final summer season and just lately reprised his star-making position as Kelso from That ’70s Present within the sitcom’s spin-off, That ’90s Present.
“I don’t assume I used to be actually away,” Kutcher mentioned about not showing onscreen. “My spouse [Mila Kunis] is an actress and has a manufacturing firm and is at all times within the guts of it. I believe I simply obtained very quiet publicly in an effort to actually simply give attention to issues I care about, like my household. I believe one of many issues that I spotted throughout that point is to construct options to issues that exist on this planet for the world. And equally essential is telling tales that have an effect on the general public discourse and have an effect on the narrative. I like telling tales. I need to be a part of corporations and tasks that say one thing and ship pleasure to individuals. Your Place or Mine is enjoyable, and I hope it brings happiness for individuals. It did for me.”
Kutcher mentioned that when he first learn the script for Your Place or Mine, he instantly knew he needed to take the half. He obtained “chills” as a result of story line mirroring his personal private life.
