Rudy Mancuso and Camila Mendes play love interests in “Music.” Their chemistry sparked a real-life romance.
millions of people know Rudy Mancuso As a social media star.Now he’s starring in his first movie musicwhich he also co-wrote and directed.
The teen romantic comedy premiered at South by Southwest in March and is currently streaming on Prime Video. Mancuso rose to prominence on the video platform Vine and is known for his comedy. music video and “Awkward Puppet” Sketch.
He told Yahoo Entertainment that throughout his online career, he had been “auditioning” material for his first feature film.
“Movies and music have always been what I’m most interested in, but the Internet [popularity] “I just happened to start doing music videos and characters and developed a following that way.”
exist music, Mancuso plays a fictional version of himself living in Newark, New Jersey, as a street performer with synesthesia, a neurological disorder that allows him to hear rhythms in everyday sounds. He was also dealing with a broken relationship with his long-term girlfriend.Haley (played by Francesca Real) and Isabella (played by Camila Mendes.
The film closely reflects the real life of Mancuso – a Brazilian musician from Newark who suffered from synesthesia (a neurological disorder in which stimulation of one sense causes stimulation of the others) reaction), while his on-screen mother was played by his biological mother. But Mancuso’s life was also inspired by the film: It helped him fall in love.
Mancuso is now dating his partner Mendes. In the movie, when he first makes eye contact with her, he’s in the middle of a synesthesia-induced musical scene in the marketplace. A giant fish immediately flew through the air and caught him in the face, so she wrote him a sweet message on his order, which ignited a romance between them.
In real life, they both told Yahoo Entertainment that when they first started working together, they never imagined a romantic connection. music, But their similar Brazilian backgrounds gave them common ground. Mancuso said falling in love on set felt “surreal.”
“I’ve never had an experience like this. I don’t think any of us expected the chemistry to seep into real life so deeply and so quickly, but it was amazing,” he said. “It changed my life as an actor so much easier and the dynamic between our characters was stronger because it was real.”
Mendes also became an executive producer on the film a few months before filming began, “slightly specifying some of the female characters to make them feel more rounded,” but praised Mancuso’s “vision and creativity” for always shining through Shine the light for her on the project.
“I’ve never been able to be a part of a Brazilian-American story before,” Mendez said. “This is a dream come true for me… and it’s such a unique story that it feels like me It’s like nothing I’ve read before…”
