‘The Drama’ Trailer Teases Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s Wedding of the Year

Dream Scenario director Kristoffer Borgli is giving Zendaya and Robert Pattinson the most hellish lead-up to their wedding day in the trailer for his latest A24 movie, The Drama. The pair (who reunite on blistering sand this December in Dune: Part Three) play bookstore clerk Emma Harwood and her museum director fiancé Charlie Thompson in Borgli’s upcoming romantic comedy, but what starts as a fun and lovey-eyed dynamic soon takes a sharp turn down a dark road — one that they might not be able to return from.

Footage from a pivotal dinner scene with their friends — played by One Battle After Another‘s Alana Haim and Kinds of Kindness star Mamoudou Athie — involves the foursome regaling each other with the worst things they’ve ever done. We never get to hear Emma or Charlie’s stories, though, only the others’ that have something to do with “this dog” and “beer bottles and porn.” As the scene dramatically cuts to the end of Emma’s contribution, she’s somehow managed to leave the rest of the table totally aghast. “Are you serious?” asks Haim’s character, before Charlie lets out a nervy laugh. “Emma, WHAT THE F***!” is the final nail in her coffin. Mortified, all she can do is muster an apology.

From then onward, The Drama‘s central relationship mutates into something else entirely, with visible tension erupting between the imminently-married duo as Charlie tears his hair out over the unsaid revelation. “True love is complicated,” he reflects as the big day fast approaches. But will they make it down the aisle together to exchange those vows? Find out from April 3 when it screens in cinemas.

Robert Pattinson Needed Help Understanding Key Scene

Prior to the full trailer getting released today, Pattinson told French magazine Première that he needed some assistance from his The Drama co-star Zendaya one night. Apparently, he couldn’t quite wrap his head around a scene, so he called her up and fortunately for him, their conversation straightened everything out in his mind.

“We had a scene together that was driving me crazy. I was desperately looking for its meaning, writing pages and pages of textual analysis. I ended up calling Zendaya the night before shooting the scene. I shared my doubts with her, I spoke for two hours, and after a while, very calmly, she made me understand that the line just said what it meant to say, that there was no hidden meaning. And there I was, going crazy for three days.”