Krew Boylan remembers Rose Byrne's eyebrows; Byrne clocked Boylan's freckles. This is what the two actors and best friends recall about their first meeting, one morning at roll call when they were just a few kids spending their days at Balmain Public School and their afternoons at drama classes at Australian Theatre for Young People. “It was a school romance,” Boylan jokes, the beginning of a beautiful, decades-spanning friendship. “Sometimes I'm not sure where she starts and I finish,” Byrne reflects. “It's like a continuous communication that we have and thought process that we share.”
The two are taking their relationship to the big screen in this month's Seriously Red, a film written by, produced and starring Boylan alongside Byrne through their production company Dollhouse Pictures and directed by Gracie Otto. The story, which Boylan worked on over the past eight years, follows a young woman called Raylene (Boylan), whose desperate yearning to fit in, when she was born to stand out, leads her into a strange world of Dolly Parton impersonators. (Byrne cameos as a disgruntled Elvis standin.) In this frank conversation with Vogue, Byrne and Boylan share what makes their friendship so special, both on and off the screen.
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