Best known for comic roles, the couple talk about how they parlayed their marriage into a sweaty nightmare of a film – and what it’s like to share their love in public
Dave Franco is showing me his wounds: a bloody finger, a grazed foot, a palm full of blisters. On his phone, the actor zooms in on the photo collage he has compiled of the worst injuries he sustained on the set of Together, the romance-horror he stars in alongside his wife, Alison Brie. She is not to be outdone. In one scene, Brie’s character is propelled against a glass door by a mysterious force. During filming, it seemed as if her stunt double was walking up to the door “very slowly. I felt like it was not landing the beat,” says the actor. “I said: ‘Let me just do it.’ And that’s what’s in the movie, me running and slamming into the glass. Then, of course, I had a little bruise on my nose that we had to cover with makeup.”
Franco and Brie were clearly willing to throw themselves – literally – into the hugely entertaining film, which follows Tim and Millie, an unhappy couple who move to the countryside and begin experiencing a bizarre and nauseating fusion of their bodies. The pair also co-produced the film – the feature debut from the Australian writer-director Michael Shanks – and were instrumental in getting it made, which is why they are also pouring every ounce of energy into spreading the word.
