Frisky Business
Tom and Katie Turn Up at The Romantics Premiere
A tight-knit group of old college friends come together for a wedding in The Romantics. In that spirit, the cast reunion for last night's Cinema Society screening of the film (which was co-sponsored by J.Crew) turned out to be a bit of a love-in—even if this was less a case of college buddies than a fraternity of Us Weekly cover subjects.
Filming on an indie budget in a small town in Long Island, lead actress Katie Holmes (yes, apparently her world encompasses indie budgets and small towns) got plenty of quality time, alongside her fellow cast mates, at the seaside mansion where The Romantics is set. That included dinners at a local joint called the Frisky Oyster. "We really had nowhere else to go. It kind of felt like summer camp," Adam Brody explained pre-screening. The "we" in question apparently included spouses. When Holmes' famous husband breezed by on the carpet on his way into the theater, Brody merely shrugged. "Yeah, well, that's just Tom."
Holmes and Cruise stuck around for the after-party at Gansevoort Park Avenue, where they were joined by Josh Duhamel, who revealed his tender side. "I've cried at weddings where I don't even know the two people that are getting married," he admitted, adding that he surprised himself by holding it together during his nuptials last year to Fergie.
Holmes made a habit of bringing cupcakes on set, where a reportedly very well-behaved Suri Cruise "was shushing people" when director Galt Niederhoffer called "action," according to Malin Akerman. In short, there was no evidence of the tortured misbehavior of the two main characters in the film, not-so-old flames (played by Holmes and Duhamel) who meet up at a wedding where only one of them is tying the knot. Holmes clarified that the love triangle is one unconventional arrangement that she's never been a part of. "Thank God," she said. "It's a little stressful, as you can see in the film."
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