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Two years ago, Amelia Dimoldenberg was on a date with Paul Mescal and she asked him if he would ever be in a rom-com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
She told him she was writing and directing a rom-com and that she was going to be the lead, and that she was looking for her male counterpart. She made him audition on the spot. In her signature playful negging style, she gave the impression he hadn\u2019t made the cut.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The date, despite her insistence, wasn\u2019t real. It was an instalment of her popular YouTube series, Chicken Shop Date, in which she interviews \u2013 and grills \u2013 celebrities at a random poultry eatery in London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Her demeanour is deadpan and frequently sarcastic, and she\u2019s known for throwing curlies at her guest. When Mescal said he used to play Gaelic football, she shot back, \u201cWere you any good, obviously not, because you\u2019re not doing it now, professionally\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n It\u2019s all part of her brand. Chicken Shop Date has 3.34 million subscribers on YouTube but clips from the individual videos go viral on other platforms. Dimoldenberg can draw out some great reactions from famous people who are practised in not giving away too much.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Her guests have included the likes of Cher, Sabrina Carpenter, Ben Stiller, Idris Elba, Jennifer Lawrence and Elmo. She and Andrew Garfield\u2019s flirtations took over the online discourse for a week. Billie Eilish complemented her on her breasts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But Dimoldenberg is clearly not content with just being a celebrity whisperer. That rom-com she told Mescal about was probably just a bit, to get him to read a script with the line of dialogue, \u201cAmelia, you look so beautiful today\u201d, but now it\u2019s also a thing that\u2019s really happening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Dimoldenberg has now been announced as the producer and star of an actual rom-com film in development at Orion Pictures, a subsidiary of Amazon MGM Studios.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n She will play a straighty-one-eighty journalist whose life is knocked off its axis when a normal celebrity interview morphs into a romantic adventure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The script is coming from Sarah Heyward, who has credits in the genre on series Nobody Wants This, Girls and Modern Love.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n For Dimoldenberg fans, this is great news, but for the actors who have sometimes sat opposite her on those Chicken Shop Dates, it\u2019s another case of the internet star coming for their jobs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In all fairness to Dimoldenberg, she has done more than just host celebrity interviews on a YouTube show. Through her own company she produces the series too, which started as a project talking to artists from grime music, and which has now been running for over a decade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n