Will Packer Urges People to See “You, Me & Tuscany” In Theaters

Hollywood producer Will Packer is bringing Black-led rom-coms back to theaters. His latest film, “You, Me & Tuscany,” hit theaters on April 10, starring actress and Grammy-nominated singer Halle Bailey and Rege-Jean Page , the British actor best known for starring in the Netflix hit Bridgerton . In the movie, Bailey plays an adventurous 20-something-year-old New Yorker who takes a spontaneous trip to Tuscany, Italy, and gets trapped in a never-ending web of lies. While there, she falls for an attractive, charismatic, hardworking Italian man played by Page and comes to terms with her truth. Source: Halle Bailey and Regé-Jean Page at the premiere of “You, Me & Tuscany” at Jazz at Lincoln Center (Photo by Valerie Terranova/Getty Images for Universal Pictures | Courtesy of WORTHI) Packer, who produced blockbusters like “Girls Trip” and “Think Like A Man,” says Black love could make a comeback on the big screen, depending on how much support his new film receives in theaters. “Anytime is a good time for a rom-com fronted by two incredible Black leads,” he told Black Enterprise on the red carpet at the film’s world premiere in New York on Wednesday. “It’s a universal story. The leads happen to be Black, and I think that makes it all the better. I love the fact that a movie about love and joy — no trauma, just a good time — is back in theaters.” Last month, writer and director Nina Lee revealed on X that entertainment studios and executives wer…