[Editor’s note: The following contains some spoilers for My Fault: London.]

Summary

‘My Fault: London’ is now streaming on Prime Video, featuring Noah and Nick’s romance in London and all the obstacles they must face.

Actors Asha Banks and Matthew Broome discuss their roles, chemistry, and hopes for more films in the franchise.

The film explores young love, set among action sequences and intimate moments, and Banks and Broome enjoyed the opportunity to make Noah and Nick their own.

Hot off the heels of the Spanish sequel Culpa Tuya (Your Fault) becoming the biggest international original launch ever for Prime Video and the third and final film in the trilogy (Culpa Nuestra) already shot, My Fault: London is now streaming with Noah (Asha Banks) and Nick (Matthew Broome) in London. When Noah’s mother falls in love with Nick’s father, they leave the past behind as they move into a world of wealth and power they’ve never been a part of before. Noah quickly makes friends and catches bad boy Nick’s attention as they bond over car racing, but they also learn you can’t outrun your past because it will always find a way to catch up with you.
During this interview with Collider, co-stars Banks and Broome talk about being part of such a popular global franchise, making Noah and Nick their own, their easy chemistry, getting to lead the film together, all the music playlists directors Charlotte Fassler and Dani Girdwood made for the shoot, Noah’s American accent, Nick’s frosted tips, getting revenge on Noah’s ex, the fun they had with the action sequences, figuring out the intimate moments, and their hope to continue telling Noah and Nick’s story with two more films.
Collider: You guys posted a video on social media from when you saw a billboard for the movie in L.A. Does seeing the worldwide reach for all of this make it more real? You’re in the bubble of making the movie, and then you’re doing press at home, so did that help you realize just how big this is?
ASHA BANKS: Absolutely. It’s so surreal. We were literally just driving down the road and I saw another Prime billboard and I was like, “Oh, imagine if …..” and then, we just turned the corner and [it was there]. It’s so surreal.
MATTHEW BROOME: We also woke up to all our friends back at home in England sending us videos of buses and other billboards that have gone up in London now. It’s been very surreal.
BANKS: It’s so hard to digest. It’s so fun to see it in different places.
‘My Fault: London’s Asha Banks and Matthew Broome Made the Popular Franchise Their Own

“It’s big shoes to fill because the Spanish film did so amazingly and the book is so loved.”

When you were taking this on, knowing the built-in audience that’s already there, what were you most nervous about and what were you most excited about? Did you feel like you really got to make it your own?
BANKS: We’re so lucky to be a part of something that already has a fan base that’s so passionate, and I love this story so much. We’re just blessed to be able to make a new version and try to bring our flair to it.
BROOME: The movie being set in London definitely helped to make it our own, easily. The environment changes things. Because the fans are so passionate, there’s a lot of care we had to take when approaching it for our version. It feels quite scary.
BANKS: It’s big shoes to fill because the Spanish film did so amazingly and the book is so loved. It’s equal parts daunting and exciting.
BROOME: You wanna give your own version, but you also wanna do it justice.
When you guys met in the chemistry read, what did you learn from doing the scenes in that moment? Were there aspects of the relationship that formed then, that really stayed that way throughout the shoot?
BANKS: Yeah, I think we were very lucky that we got on so well immediately and were very comfortable with each other. When we started filming, we started the shoot with the scenes where Nick and Noah are in love and getting to know each other and it was happy days, and ended the shoot where they’re bickering. That was so much easier for us because, by that point, we’d spent nine weeks of our life together. We were like a married couple.
How did you guys find the experience of leading a film? Neither of you had led a film like this, so what was it like to step up in that way, but to also have each other and not have to do it alone?
BROOME: That’s the best part of it. We got to do such a mammoth task, but with each other, which made it more digestible and more fun than stressful.
BANKS: We always knew that we had each other in everything. It feels way less scary to lead something, knowing that you’re doing it completely with somebody else.

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When you guys watched the Spanish film, what were the biggest differences that most surprised you?
BANKS: What I really loved about doing our version is that Nick and Noah’s dynamic does shift with them having such cultural differences. Nick being a British boy and Noah being an American girl is such a different energy. That was really fun.
BROOME: The chemistry is completely different, which is influenced completely by the environment and what’s true for each one in that environment.
BANKS: Even just the landscape is so different. The backdrop for the whole film being London is so different to it being Spain. They’re both equally amazing, but there’s such a difference.
I read that your directors made an overall playlist for the film and also a playlist for each character. Did you guys get to hear those playlists? How does something like that help you find the character?
BANKS: As soon as I found out that (directors) Dani [Girdwood] and Charlotte [Fassler] had made playlists, I was like, “Please send them to me. Send me every single one.” They had a racing playlist, a romance playlist, a Nick playlist, a Noah playlist, a My Fault playlist, a party play list. They had so much. And then, I made my own Noah playlist as well.
BROOME: And then, we made a joint playlist with each other. Music definitely had a massive influence on this process. I think that’s why the soundtrack for the film is so good.
BANKS: It’s crazy, looking back at the playlist that they made because so many of the songs that helped them get in the headspace of the film have ended up in the film, which is just crazy.
When you’re making a movie called My Fault: London, were you surprised to find yourself having to do an American accent? How did you approach figuring out the type of accent you wanted?
BANKS: My character, Noah, in our version is from Florida, but her mom is from England. The directors were happy with the American accent that I brought in the audition, which is just a general American. Because her mom is from England, Noah might have some British-isms or a slight flare sometimes. I just had to trust them and hope for the best.
Matthew, there is some fun made at Nick’s expense when it comes to his hair. Who decided on the hair and how did you feel about it?
BROOME: When you’re trying to find a character and who a character is, the look definitely plays into it. Because Nick is, in many ways, close to me, in terms of similarities, but there are also a lot of differences, I think it was a helpful move to feel further away from myself. I don’t know. I feel like having frosted tips is definitely a phase, and Nick is definitely going through a phase. But as soon as I had it on, I was like, “Oh, okay, this feels more like a character than me.”
I love that it was acknowledged. That was pretty funny.
BANKS: That line was improv, as well. That was me that added that.
‘My Fault: London’s Asha Banks and Matthew Broome Think Noah and Nick Find Strength in Each Other

“They both set fire to a certain part of each other that I don’t think has been set alight before.”

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One of the great things about Noah is her strength. She goes after what she wants and she’s able to voice when she’s not happy. At the same time, Nick doesn’t seem intimidated by that and he’s not trying to change that about her. What did you guys each most enjoy about your characters and their relationship, and what it was like to explore them growing together?
BANKS: They both set fire to a certain part of each other that I don’t think has been set alight before, which is why they connect. They’re similar in a lot of ways. They’re both very stubborn and both very strong. Their similarities are what brings them closer. At the beginning, it feels like that’s what pushes them apart, but it ends up being the thing that brings them together.
BROOME: They learn a lot about themselves through learning about each other.
We get to see Noah with her boyfriend and her best friend at the start of the film, which lets us she who she is and what she’s leaving behind. It also helps the audience cheer on a little bit of the revenge that happens later on. Were there any other versions of how that would play out? Did you guys talk about pushing that further, or not pushing things as far? How did you find the right amount of punishment for him?
BANKS: When I read the script, I was like, “Yes, Noah! Go on, girl!” It was funny, when we filmed the first scene in Florida, that was actually the first scene that we shot on the whole movie and it’s the first scene in the movie, which is cool. Knowing what ended up happening between Dan and Haley, I remember them questioning what that dynamic would be in that scene and whether they were giving each other a little look or something. At the premiere, when Noah received the text, there was a collective gasp.
BROOME: When Nick punches him, it’s a satisfying end to the whole situation because everyone is thinking, “Punch him.”
This relationship is so much a part of why fans love this story. What scenes were you guys most nervous about or felt the most pressure to get exactly right when it came to the relationship between Nick and Noah?
BANKS: The scenes that felt the most nerve-wracking were the ones that people love so much from the book. Their first meeting was definitely something that we wanted to get right because it’s so important.
BROOME: Also, to make it our own was difficult. For the scenes where the structure was very similar to the book or the Spanish version, we were like, “How can we stay true to this, but make it feel different without ruining it?”

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Are you able to watch the scenes and feel good about it, or do you pick yourselves apart?
BANKS: It’s a middle ground of both, depending on the day.
BROOME: Half the time, we were like, “I have no idea what just happened, so let’s hope it turns out.”
BANKS: We’re lucky that we’re so close with our directors and they were so transparent and honest. We saw so much on set, which doesn’t always happen. We just trusted them so much and trusted their judgment and knew it was in the best, most capable hands possible.
What was it like to do the more intimate moments in this? Do you go into those scenes taking them very seriously? Did you try to keep them light and not take them too seriously? How did you get comfortable with that? How did you approach those moments?
BANKS: We were so lucky that we are so comfortable with each other and have been since the offset. It meant that we were able to dance between the two and be super silly and joking, and then be able to switch into a more serious and vulnerable state for those scenes.
BROOME: Having an intense scene like that, it’s quite nice to not make it feel like that. If you put so much pressure on it, it will feel uncomfortable. Just treating it like a normal day on set helped.
BANKS: And we had an amazing intimacy coordinator and directors that we worked with, who just made everything amazing and so much fun.

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Young love can be very emotional and heightened, but then you throw in an action thriller on top of all that. Is that exhilarating in its own way? Are you guys inspired to be action stars now?
BANKS: Yes.
BROOME: That was cool. We did feel like action stars on set.
BANKS: It was just so surreal. It did feel like we were filming two different movies, a romance movie and an action film, but they were both us. It was crazy in different ways.
BROOME: The process was so fulfilling. We had these tender moments with each other that were just us on set and us hanging out. And then, we’d go to do the fight scene or the race scenes and the scale was just so much bigger and grand and action-packed. As an actor, that’s always so fun.
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“Hopefully it works out.”

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Is the plan to also shoot the second and third film? Have you had those conversations? Are you hoping to finish telling this story?
BANKS: Definitely, we’d love to.
BROOME: We’ve got our fingers crossed.
BANKS: Yeah, there are three books, so that’s the dream. Hopefully, it works out.

My Fault: London

Release Date

February 12, 2025

Runtime

119 minutes

Director

Charlotte Fassler

Writers

Dani Girdwood, Melissa Osborne

Producers

Domingo González, Álex de la Iglesia, Ben Pugh, Erica Steinberg, Carolina Bang

My Fault: London is available to stream on Prime Video. Check out the trailer: