Emily Ratajkowski Is Set to Join Indie Romance Still We Met
Emily Ratajkowski is set to join Mary Beth Barone and Joe Alwyn in Still We Met, a romantic comedy already filming in New York. Deadline reported the casting news on 13 November 2026.
The film is an independent production, which means it is made outside the big studio system. Barone wrote the script, and it is semi-autobiographical, drawing in part on her own life. The story follows a young woman at a crossroads. She meets a charming British stranger and spends one night wandering New York with him.
The film is also a first for two people behind it. Zackary Drucker is making her narrative feature directorial debut. A narrative feature is a fiction film, as opposed to a documentary. For Barone, Still We Met marks her feature debut as both a screenwriter and an actor.
Jack Heller and Caitlin de Lisser-Ellen are producing for Assemble Media. They work alongside Alex Bach and Daniel Powell of Irony Point. Lena Dunham and Michael Cohen are executive producers under their Good Thing Going banner. An executive producer is a credit usually given to people who help bring a project together, often by arranging money or partnerships rather than working on set each day.
Ratajkowski and Dunham have worked together before. Ratajkowski appeared in Dunham's Netflix series Too Much, which gives the two a shared history on screen and behind it. Ratajkowski is also developing an untitled series for Apple TV with A24, the film company. In development means the project is being prepared, and it has not yet been made.
What makes this casting stand out is the mix of people on the project. A first-time writer and a first-time director are working with producers who have worked on TV and film in New York. Ratajkowski joins a cast that also includes Alwyn, a British actor.
For now, the news is that the film is in production and that Ratajkowski is joining its cast. Viewers will have to wait for further updates on when and where the film might be seen.
