Madelaine Petsch leads Prime Video’s Maintenance Required with humor, heart, and horsepower.
The cast of Maintenance Required discuss leaning into what makes them different, what they personally want to see in the genre, and more. Madelaine Petsch, Jacob Scipio, Madison Bailey, Katy O’Brian, and Matteo Lane star in Prime Video‘s latest rom-com, Maintenance Required. The film, which is now streaming, follows a fiercely independent owner of an all-female mechanic shop and her new rival at a corporate competitor, who are unaware that they are each other’s anonymous online confidants.
On What They Think Is The Most Underappreciated Aspect Of The Enemies-To-Lovers Trope
“I think it’s that in a lot of rom-coms, and we were just talking about this earlier, it doesn’t really feel like the love is earned,” Petsch explained. “You just have to jump on the ride with them and go, and with enemies-to-lovers, because there’s so much back and forth, I really do feel like at the end of the movie, you feel like it’s earned. They spent so much time together, like they’ve gotten to know each other over so many different walks of life.”
“It’s when you’re at each other’s throats, and I’ll be like, ‘Are they flirting? Are they gonna get it together?’ And it almost feels like a really fun build-up to eventually, when hopefully they do get it together,” Scipio added.
On What Stood Out To Them About This Rom-Com
“I like that the girls are just dirty and gritty and doing the car thing, and Jacob’s character is just clean and you barely see him touch a car the whole time,” O’Brian expressed. “It’s just kind of a fun dynamic shift.”
Bailey continued to share, “I like the fact that they’re already in love with each other at the beginning of the movie. Unlike most, I mean, they obviously do the whole meet and whatever, but I think it’s interesting that they’re already fallen for each other before it even starts.”
“I just like that they made the best friend of the guy gay, not the girl,” Lane concluded. “It’s always the gay guy in the office who’s always like, ‘Go get him,’ you know? So it was fun to be friends with Jacob, and that was a nice twist for me.”
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Sophia Soto
Sophia Soto is a writer and interviewer with a passion for all things entertainment. She is a Senior Reporter at The Nerds of Color and contributes to Awards Radar, What to Watch, Screensphere, Nerdtropolis, and Temple of Geek. You can see her past work on Den of Geek, Yardbarker, Remezcla, Young Hollywood, Looper, Paste Magazine, Primetimer, Soundsphere, Brit + Co, and Starry Constellation Magazine. Her current favorite TV shows include Outer Banks, Tell Me Lies, and Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Additionally, she is a complete Marvel nerd! Connect with her on X (@srsoto26) and Instagram (@srsoto264).
