'All of You': Brett Goldstein, Imogen Poots romance explores love in a way movies usually skip
This new Apple TV+ film is a sci-fi-tinged romance about two friends grappling with love, connection and the concept of a soulmate
Elisabetta Bianchini
Fri, September 26, 2025 at 3:52 p.m. MDT



Imogen Poots and Brett Goldstein in "All of You," premiering in select theaters and on Apple TV+ September 26, 2025.


One of the most unique romance films you'll see, All of You on Apple TV+, starring Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots, questions what a soulmate or a "perfect partner" really is. Directed by William Bridges, written by Goldstein and Bridges, originally as a 10-minute short film years ago, the script blends emotional moments with this really endearing comedy for a satisfying exploration of love.

Goldstein and Imogen Poots play best friends, Simon and Laura. They've known each other since college, and there's always been a seemingly romantic connection between them.

We first see the pair when Simon is accompanying Laura to take "the test," a process that promises to evaluate an individual and determine their one true love. It's something Laura wants to know, but Simon isn't interested in letting science and tech like this inform his love life.

Laura ends up marrying and having a child with her designated soulmate, Lukas (Steven Cree), while Simon ends up dating a woman named Andrea (Zawe Ashton), but while Laura and Simon weave in and out of each other's lives throughout the years, there's always a spark between them.

"The idea that we have, in our culture, that there's one person meant for you, always seemed insane to me," Goldstein said. "It's too much pressure on one person."

"But I also am like, what about all the other people in your life? Then what are they for? Are they just stepping stones to get to the one? ... I think everyone has someone in their life that isn't their partner, that is their friend, but that they feel a real love for, a connection or something. And we sort of wanted to push that to the extreme, which is, what is it between two people when they know they are not meant to be together, and yet they're still drawn to each other."


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As the film jumps to different times in the evolution of Laura and Simon's relationship, the audience is never told exactly how much time has passed, leaving it to the viewer to evaluate those gaps based on where Laura and Simon are in their lives. But there's also a great use of light and darkness in the film that shows how close they are to each other, and how happy Simon and Laura are at that particular moment.

"The light and dark reflect whereabouts we are in their relationship. ... And also just wanted to show ... the London that I know," Bridges said. "So it was definitely to reflect their emotional status and what's going on with them, but also, in a way, just to go, ... this is what it's like in London."
'These are two funny people'

But it really is the dialogue that stands out about All of You. While we already know Goldstein, in particular, is great at comedy and superb at mixing comedy with emotion in projects like Ted Lasso and Shrinking, it's taken to another level in this film. Laura and Simon connect through how they make jokes throughout all of life's situations in a way that feels so personal to this relationship. But in watching the film, it feels so much rarer and intimate compared to other romance movies.

"Unlike in sitcoms that are funny, these are two funny people," Goldstein said. "We wanted it to be like how funny people are funny in real life."

"So if we ever wrote something that felt too much like a written joke, like it was almost too clever, we'd cut that from the script. So it was like, everyone can be funny, as funny as real people in real life are funny, and I think maybe that's why it might feel unique, ... because we never made it so that they're like, super witty. ... They're very natural, and it had to feel real the whole time."

"We've been talking about these characters for so long that we felt like we knew them so well, and I guess they kind of share the same sense of humour that Brett and I have, to a degree," Bridges said in a separate interview. "So a lot of the jokes ... are probably jokes that Brett and I were cracking to each other, trying to make each other laugh during the writing process."

"But we found that is how those two characters connect. That is why they are so close, because they share that same sense of humour."

Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots in "All of You," now streaming on Apple TV+.
The rarity of seeing female characters like Laura

There's so much complexity with how All of You has Simon and Laura navigating their relationship, which sometimes means not being honest with their partners, which adds this emotional and moral dilemma for them.

"There have been a couple of comments about, 'How can you feel compassion for her when she's essentially having an affair?' But I think that's what makes the story so relatable," Poots said. "That's why great poetry and great art have been written about people who have to make choices that are out of their control in a way."

"And we don't see a lot of female characters like that. I've seen many movies where men are committing infidelity, but those are more popular films. So this one, it was really important to me to play her, and I really feel great compassion for all of the characters, but especially Laura. And I don't think that just because you make other choices in your life, professionally or emotionally, or if you become a mother, that you have to sort of ... stop living. I don't think that's very fair."

There's one moment in particular that explores Laura's emotions so beautifully. Laura and Simon decide to go out of town for a romantic trip together, but when Laura thinks about the husband and child she's left at home, she packs up and leaves without Simon knowing. It's a beautiful performance by Poots as we just watch all the emotions rush to Laura's face, and then we see Simon's emotional response as he's processing his relationship with Laura, and then that shift when he sees she's gone.

"It also speaks to the writing and our director. He understood the importance of having moments like that, where you are just sort of with the character processing," Poots said. "It's wonderful when a filmmaker allows for space for a performance to kind of bleed out past this sort of the final full stop of the scene, that's where you see the most truth often."

"I think that was just really important to get across the conflict and the dilemma, and that just because you're madly in love with somebody, that doesn't mean it's in any way comfortable or OK hurting someone else. And that's, of course, what makes her so interesting to play is that there's a constant conflict within her, and also as a mother, too."

William Bridges behind the scenes of "All of You," now streaming on Apple TV+.

But in the final product of All of You, it's an exploration of love that we don't often see, and a blend of sci-fi elements, real emotional stakes and comedy that makes it a particularly singular film.

"What you get told in romance movies [is that] romance is true love in those movies, whereas we wanted to look at love and everything else that comes with it, all the different aspects of love," Bridges said. "We were trying to tell a love story with romance in it, but we wanted to look at love, and the way we thought to do that was to create a world where true love exists, and then say, but what about all the other kinds of love that we all know exist in this world. What does that mean?"