Dave Franco and Alison Brie Joke Their Latest Movie Made Them 'More Codependent Than Ever' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Alison Brie and Dave Franco in ‘Together’.Photo:Courtesy of Sundance Institute

Courtesy of Sundance Institute

Alison BrieandDave Francoare together in more ways than one.

Thecouple, married since 2017, costar and co-produce the new thrillerTogether, from writer-director Michael Shanks in his directorial debut. Brie, 42, and Franco, 39, debuted the film at theSundance Film Festivalon Sunday, Jan. 26.

Speaking at PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly’s Shutterstock Official Sundance Film Festival Portrait Studio, Brie and Franco joke that playing isolated couple Millie and Tim had real-world implications for their relationship. “I think we’re more codependent than ever,” quips Franco.

“Yeah,” agrees Brie with a laugh. “The film is about a codependent couple who’s sort of in a bit of a rut. They’re feeling dangerously codependent, having issues with that. And I think we went into it being like, ‘Our relationship is much healthier and everything’s good.’ And then we came out on the other side a little more codependent.”

“But because one of us will go off for a few months at a time [to film], we’re kind of forced to be independent, which balances everything out,” shares Franco.

“We like to have one person home withthe cats, if possible,” he adds. “The loves of our lives.”

Togethermarks the duo’s first onscreen return since costarring in 2017’sThe Little HoursandThe Disaster Artist; Franco also directed his wife in 2023’sSomebody I Used to Know. “With a move to the countryside already testing the limits of a couple’s relationship, a supernatural encounter begins an extreme transformation of their love, their lives, and their flesh,” per a synopsis from Sundance.

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Alison Brie and Dave Franco at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 26.Mat Hayward/Getty

Mat Hayward/Getty

“We want to be heavily involved in the creative process of the films that we’re making,” says Brie. “It’s nice also to be able to see something through to the end. As actors, you come in to shoot it and then you don’t see the film again until it’s finished. As producers, we get to be involved in the post-production process and editing and notes, and really, we get granular. We love it.”

source: people.com