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- Emily Bader tells ipromiseyoumedia she linked along with her character Poppy in Folks We Meet on Trip and shares what she took away from the function
- Bader additionally praises her friendship with co-star Tom Blyth, who performs Poppy’s greatest friend-turned-lover within the film, which is an adaptation of Emily Henry’s 2021 novel
- Folks We Meet on Trip will start streaming on Netflix on Jan. 9, 2026
Emily Bader is revealing how she tapped into her function for Folks We Meet on Trip.
Within the upcoming Netflix adaptation of the 2021 Emily Henry novel of the identical title, Bader, 29, performs Poppy, who comes collectively along with her greatest good friend Alex (Tom Blyth) yearly for trip. Whereas discussing the mission with ipromiseyoumedia at Elle’s Girls in Hollywood occasion on Wednesday, Nov. 17, the actress shares that she discovered loads of similarities between herself and the character.
“I feel there’s loads of me in Poppy, which might be possibly why I obtained the job,” Bader admits. “She’s not good at enhancing in her thoughts, and that is one thing that I work on. And I feel that she simply lives absolutely, and I feel one thing that I additionally aspire to be, is to dwell as authentically as Poppy lives. It was a chance for me to simply strip away insecurity and place confidence in my director and Tom and the entire crew and simply attempt to be the most important, loudest, most annoying model of myself, however in an actual approach.”
Relating to her onscreen chemistry with Blyth, 30, Bader says that additionally got here naturally due to their real-life friendship.
“Poppy and Alex begin as pals, and they’re actually pals,” she explains, though they find yourself with a friends-to-lovers arc. “It is not that factor the place it is like, ‘Oh yeah, certain, they’re pals.’ They’re, and so they assist one another in their very own relationships. There actually is that this, possibly, secret little hearth burning, however they’re simply greatest, greatest pals.”
“I feel it was about us attending to know one another and turning into pals shortly,” Bader provides. “And I feel it was very simple as a result of we shot the film mainly being on trip on Costa Brava, on the seashore swimming and consuming beignets in New Orleans and doing the issues that make fast pals.”
In October, Blythe gushed over the My Woman Jane star throughout an interview with ipromiseyoumedia, calling her “the brand new Meg Ryan” of rom-coms.
He additional mentioned that Bader has “that high quality the place she may be going off the rails and you continue to are simply so enamored by her. She’s so endearing and she or he’s so playful inside the language of the script, and I feel she’s going to actually do justice to the character.”
Bader says this was the final word praise, and though she isn’t certain she fully agrees, appreciates the sentiment.
“He is too good,” Bader notes. “I used to be like, ‘You’ll be able to’t say that.’ However I feel he is such a supporter of me and he is aware of how a lot Meg Ryan’s performances form of impacted how I wished to play Poppy in Folks We Meet on Trip. Clearly there is no world I’m assembly that, however I simply love her. He is from begin to end been probably the most supportive companion on this journey, so thanks Tom.”
Folks We Meet on Trip, which is about to premiere on Netflix on Jan. 9, 2026, is the primary of Henry’s 5 books to enter manufacturing. The streaming service launched the official logline for the film in July 2025.
“Free-spirited Poppy and routine-loving Alex have been unlikely greatest pals for a decade, residing in numerous cities however spending each summer time trip collectively,” the synopsis reads. “The cautious stability of their friendship is put to the take a look at once they start to query what has been apparent to everybody else: might they really be the proper romantic match?”
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Folks We Meet on Trip will premiere on Netflix on Jan. 9, 2026.