Zoey and Zach’s first assembly in The Different Zoey is unconventional — but it surely already has Us seeing sparks.
In Us Weekly‘s unique clip from the upcoming movie, which premieres in theaters on Friday, October 20, Zach (Drew Starkey) enters Zoey’s (Josephine Langford) life slightly chaotically when he unintentionally kicks a soccer ball in her face.
“Sorry! That was totally my fault. Are you OK?” Zach asks earlier than checking Zoey for accidents. “Which will depart a mark, would you like me to take you to the well being middle or one thing?”

Zoey — who questions love — isn’t impressed when she crosses paths with the favored jock. “ the college has a soccer discipline, proper?” she notes earlier than Zach apologizes once more.
Her pal Elle (Mallori Johnson) lightens the temper by rapidly discovering the humor within the state of affairs, joking, “You simply had Zach MacLaren’s ball in your face.”
The Different Zoey follows school pupil Zoey (Langford) after she results in a love triangle following a case of mistaken id. She has to faux to be Zach’s girlfriend — who can also be named Zoey — when she causes an accident that makes him quickly neglect the previous few weeks. Issues get a bit extra difficult when Zoey begins to surprise if his cousin Miles (Archie Renaux) is The One for her.

Forward of the film’s launch, director Sara Zandieh completely opened as much as Us about making the love triangle really feel plausible.
“I feel Zoey has chemistry with each Zach and Miles. And we simply ensured that each scene with each actors was simply actually good and would lead you down that path,” she shared. “So I feel all of it is simply within the nice performances that Josephine, Drew and Archie gave. The performances throughout the scenes had been simply all so good. I feel that’s what may lead you down each paths.”

The Different Zoey has already acquired an outpouring of help on social media due to its star-studded forged. Langford, 26, rose to stardom for her function as Tessa Younger within the After movie collection. Starkey, 30, appeared in motion pictures comparable to Love, Simon and The Hate U Give earlier than creating a big fanbase on account of his efficiency as Rafe Cameron on Netflix’s Outer Banks. Renaux, 25, stars as Mal within the streaming service’s Shadow and Bone collection.
In line with Zandieh, the forged’s supporters had been at all times on her thoughts.
“I feel their followers had been actually excited to see [Josephine and Drew] attempt comedy,” she continued. “One among my favourite components of directing is working with actors. They had been simply actually nice. They actually performed ball and had been right down to attempt issues and improvise a bit bit. I wasn’t nervous as a result of they’re each such sturdy actors.”
The Different Zoey premieres in theaters on October 20, and in a while demand on November 10.


