Sadie Soverall and Matt Cornett have the task of bringing to life Percy and Sam in \u201cEvery Year After,\u201d who fans of Carley Fortune\u2019s novels know all too well.<\/p>\n
As the leads of the adaptation of Fortune\u2019s debut novel, Percy and Sam are the childhood-friends-to-lovers duo of dreams, and have captured the hearts of over one million readers.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery Summer After\u201d is a BookTok favorite, and so the stakes were high for Soverall and Cornett when they signed on to star as the leads in the adaptation, and they sat down with Newsweek to discuss the pressure a built in fanbase adds, how a gorgeous location like Barry\u2019s Bay helps their performance, and their go to horror movie recommendations.<\/p>\n
Sadie Soverall as Percy Fraser and Matt Cornett as Sam Florek in \u201cEvery Year After.\u201d<\/p>\n
READ: \u2018Every Year After\u2019 Season 1 \u2013 Release Date, Schedule, How to Watch<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cEvery Year After\u201d is based on a beloved book<\/a> with such a huge fan base. Were you both aware of this before filming began?<\/strong><\/p>\n Sadie Soverall: <\/strong>I feel like we were both kind of aware. I hadn\u2019t read any of Carley\u2019s books<\/a> before, but I was very aware of a very gorgeous, dedicated and huge fan base.<\/p>\n Matt Cornett: <\/strong>Yeah, once I found out like what the books were \u2013 I wasn\u2019t too familiar with Carley\u2019s work before finding out I got the show \u2013 I was like, \u2018Oh, these are very dedicated fans, and they\u2019re so wonderful and so beautiful and I love to see it. I can\u2019t wait to be a part of that fan group.\u2019 I\u2019m a fan of the book with them, so it\u2019s so fun to see.<\/p>\n I\u2019m part of that dedicated, and you\u2019ve both done a brilliant job. Does it add any additional pressure for you when preparing for a role, or does it just make it more exciting?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n MC: <\/strong>I think it\u2019s a pressure that breeds excitement. While there is a pressure to get it right, per se, we want to make sure we are doing the book justice and doing Carley\u2019s work justice, but it also is an exciting chapter because we do get to have our own version of Sam and Percy. While we get to create these characters that we know everything about from the books, we get to throw our own little spin on it. That\u2019s really exciting, and really fun to tap into and explore.<\/p>\n This adaptation expands so far beyond what\u2019s on the page. We get so much more of characters who have smaller roles, like Jordie, Chantal, and Delilah. How much of the book played a factor into your preparation? Particularly for you, Sadie, because it\u2019s written from Percy\u2019s point of view. Did you take from that, or was this about approaching this as its own fresh piece of text?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n SS: <\/strong>Absolutely, I worked really closely with the book. I\u2019d never worked on a book to screen adaptation like this before and I found it really joyous, because a lot of the work that you do as an actor in constructing a backstory and secrets and character thoughts was all there for me every day in a book. So, it was quite brilliant to get to be on a scene and then get to flip to a page in the book and figure out what\u2019s going on in their head. Also, it expands on certain things that you might have just guessed at in the show, and I think all the expansions in the show were really exciting because it was new territory. I think especially with the relationship between Percy and Sue, I found that really exciting as a fan of the book to get to explore those scenes.<\/p>\n Michael Bradway as Charlie Florek, Robyn Ross as Diane Fraser, Sadie Soverall as Percy Fraser, Matt Cornett as Sam Florek, Elisha Cuthbert as Sue Florek, and Fred Ewanuick as Arthur Fraser in \u201cEvery Year After.\u201d<\/p>\n I wanted to ask you about the location. It\u2019s so stunning, and so well written on the page in the book. When I saw it for the first time on screen, I was like \u2018This is exactly what I imagined.\u2019 How does having that location for you as actors help your performances?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n MC:<\/strong> Oh, so much. I think the locations, they are so stunning on every single level, even our sets. Even the times we weren\u2019t like on location, the sets themselves are stunning. I think it felt like we were actually bringing this book to life and living this story that we had read. It was just really fun, and I think it created an environment that made us really excited to want to continue to play in.<\/p>\n One more question, and it\u2019s more of a fun one. Percy forces Sam to watch so many different horror movies throughout \u201cEvery Year After.\u201d What\u2019s your go to horror recommendation?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n SS:<\/strong> Good question.<\/p>\n MC:<\/strong> It\u2019s a great question. We watched \u201cEvil Dead\u201d together.<\/p>\n SS: <\/strong>We did, we watched the\u2026<\/p>\n MC:<\/strong> No, we watched the original one.<\/p>\n SS:<\/strong> Oh we did! We watched the original one.<\/p>\n MC: <\/strong>Then we watched \u201cHalloween.\u201d We tried to watch the whole \u201cHalloween\u201d series.<\/p>\n That\u2019s like a million movies.<\/strong><\/p>\n MC: <\/strong>Yeah, we got 1 and half in and we were like\u2026 this is too much.<\/p>\n SS:<\/strong> I feel like I\u2019m quite into psychological horror. I love the \u201cBabadook.\u201d Terrifying. I mean, I\u2019m not a horror person because I get really scared. I get nightmares. It\u2019s happening already.<\/p>\n MC: <\/strong>I\u2019ve always been a fan of the \u201cAnnabelle\u201d movies, but I will say now seeing \u201cObsession,\u201d that might be my favourite horror movie. Potentially of all time. I know that\u2019s a big thing, but I really loved that movie and it actually terrified me. So, good work to that team.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery Year After\u201d is available to stream on Prime Video<\/a> from June 10, 2026.<\/p>\nSadie Soverall and Matt Cornett Discuss \u2018Every Year After\u2019<\/h2>\n
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