Relating to early-aughts romcoms, few can prime the chemistry that got here with Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey in the 2003 hit Methods to Lose a Man in 10 Days. And since we’re dwelling in the period of reboots and remakes, it doesn’t appear off-base to surprise if there’s any likelihood a sequel may very well be within the works.
Nicely, maintain on to your love fern, as a result of Hudson’s July 17 look on Watch What Occurs Dwell is sparking main hypothesis in regards to the potential return of Andie Anderson and Benjamin Berry.
So… is a sequel on the way in which?
Not but — that we all know of, at the least. However there’s definitely extra hope for it right now than there was every week in the past.
WWHL host Andy Cohen is clearly additionally a fan of the movie, as he cued up the convo by asking Hudson in the event that they’d ever thought-about making a follow-up. “I believe they’re at all times eager about that,” Hudson admitted.
As is usually the case when there’s discuss of a nostalgic film being revisited, although, all of it comes all the way down to the script. “All that issues could be the script and if Matthew and I have been into the script,” she stated. “I believe we’re each completely open; it has simply by no means occurred.”
What have McConaughey and the opposite solid stated?
As Hudson hinted throughout her WWHL look, McConaughey would even be open to bringing again the enduring duo of Andie and Ben. In 2020, whereas talking with E!’s Each day Pop, he stated, “I imply, Methods to Lose a Man in 10 Days is teed up for one which you could possibly simply do a sequel. And that was a extremely good one. So far as romantic comedies go, that was a extremely good one.”
He additionally nodded to the enduring attraction of the movie, declaring, “And it lasts! Individuals nonetheless love that one. I loved that one fairly a bit.”
Director Donald Petrie instructed Self-importance Truthful in an interview for the film’s twentieth anniversary that his major concern with a sequel could be its stars. “I don’t know the way you’d do it, frankly; I do not assume it will be the identical with out Kate and Matthew in it,” he stated, including, “It must be a author coming in with a tremendous pitch of how they’re going to sequel-ize this.”
Since Hudson and McConaughey each appear recreation, guess it’s only a matter of discovering the best script!
As for the remainder of the unimaginable solid — Kathryn Hahn, Annie Parisse, Adam Goldberg, Thomas Lennon, Michael Michele, Shalom Harlow — not a lot has been documented about how they is likely to be feeling.
Nevertheless, Hahn and Hudson reunited in 2022 for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller, and the ladies have had nothing however glowing reward for each other.
“Methods to Lose a Man in 10 Days was my first movie, and that Kate was the lead of it was simply such a mind-blowing expertise for me,” Hahn instructed Individuals in a 2023 interview. “So then to return full circle and be on this film along with her once more, it’s simply been so thrilling. And to see her coronary heart has remained the identical, I’m so moved by all of it.”
Hudson instructed The Hollywood Reporter that working with Hahn once more was “the very best,” referring to the 2 of them as “soul sisters.”
One thing tells us this whole solid could be all the way down to revisit the times of off-key renditions of “You’re So Useless” and Krull the Warrior King.
Refresher: What’s Methods to Lose a Man in 10 Days about?
Primarily based on Michele Alexander and Jeannie Lengthy’s satirical stick-figure e book of the identical identify, the film facilities on Hudson as Andie Anderson, an recommendation columnist for {a magazine}, and McConaughey as Benjamin Barry, a hotshot promoting exec.
To assist a buddy (Hahn) dodge an task, Andie pitches an article chronicling her efforts to “lose” a man in 10 days doing all of the cliche issues ladies do in a relationship that are likely to scare males off. Little does she know, Ben concurrently takes a office guess that he could make a lady fall in love with him in 10 days. And since an enormous account is using on his success, he’s in it to win it.
Spoiler alert: This romcom has a contented ending that features Andie and Ben using off into the sundown on his motorbike, their uncared for love fern in tow.
What may a sequel be about?
Talking with WWHL’s Cohen, Hudson shared what she needs life would appear to be for her fictional counterpart lately. “My hope is that [Andie and Ben] are pleased, they’ve acquired a bunch of youngsters, they acquired married, and so they’re nonetheless taking part in Bullshit together with his mother and father,” she stated earlier than acknowledging, “If there was a sequel, I’m certain there could be some battle in there someplace.”
For what it’s price, the authors of Methods to Lose a Man in 10 Days have two different books that might function inspiration: Methods to Get Over a Man in 10 Days and Methods to Get a Man in 10 Days.
Even when the celebrities don’t align for the OG solid to reprise their roles, this nonetheless looks like a movie that deserves the reboot therapy. Or perhaps we simply throw the thought of a sequel out the window and go the remake route — by which case, our vote is for Glen Powell to change into the brand new Ben.
If nothing else ever comes from the Methods to Lose a Man in 10 Days world, although, followers may at all times simply take a web page straight out of Andie’s e book and use Photoshop to composite an up to date fake household album for the beloved nostalgic movie.
