Quan floated the idea of the pair working together back on Oscars night in 2023, something DeBose embraced on the spot.

Oscar winners Quan (for 2022’s Everything Everywhere All At Once) and DeBose (for 2021’s West Side Story) deserve a better romantic narrative than the one this film delivers, and its brief 83-minute running time hints at bits left on the cutting-room floor.

Spielberg directed a 12-year-old Quan opposite Harrison Ford in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” They celebrated the 2023 awards season together, with Quan in the race for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and Spielberg for “The Fabelmans.”