Halle Bailey and Regé-Jean Page are showing off all their best angles as the cover stars of Essence's latest digital edition.
TODAY.com is exclusively revealing the actors’ stunning cover and photo spread ahead of the release of their upcoming rom-com, “You, Me & Tuscany.”
In the photos, the two look quite dashing while posing amid the Italian architecture. Naturally, a red moped made an appearance, too.
Out April 10, “You, Me & Tuscany” follows Anna (Bailey), a young woman who is down on her luck after losing her job. She meets Matteo (Lorenzo de Moor), a handsome Italian man who happens to own a villa that sits empty in Tuscany.
Inspired and with no place to call home, Anna decides to go to Matteo’s villa without him knowing. There, she becomes entangled in a web of lies and meets Matteo’s swoon-worthy cousin Michael (Page). As feelings grow between the two, the lies Anna has told could negatively impact their future.
“I am in my very grown woman era,” Bailey tells Essence in the accompanying cover story. “This is the first project that I am showing myself in my full adulthood. And I loved it because it reflects the times that I’m in right now.”
Not only is this a stepping stone for the singer-turned-actor after starring in “The Little Mermaid” and “The Color Purple,” but it’s also a project that made her proud to celebrate Black love.
“It was so important for me to be a part of a project where I could see myself on-screen, where I could see Black love on-screen,” Bailey says. “A film where I can see us figuring it out in a joyful way.”
Produced by Will Packer, the man behind films like “Think Like a Man” and “Girls Trip,” he found the perfect stars and helped bring the joyful love to life alongside director Kat Coiro.
“And that’s very much the journey the characters are on,” he says. “Letting your co-star unlock the pieces of you that can trust someone else, and that can lean into the pieces of you that you’re holding back.”
He adds, “This movie is very much about learning to trust each other. When you’re doing romantic stories, it’s about building an emotional trust with each other, knowing that you can go to places where you are expressing very, very vulnerable things.”
