In the days leading up to their Cosmopolitan cover shoot, Asha Banks and Matthew Broome’s texts have been ablaze. The pair have been sending each other photoshoots featuring legendary co-stars: part inspiration, part pep-talk, for their moment in front of the camera. “Iconic duos,” Banks confirms later, settling into a beige sofa in a quiet corner of the studio. The aim was to look relaxed, easy, and in control - something they’re not quite sure they nailed. “We could be cool and collected,” she laughs, popping a blueberry in her mouth before offering one to Broome. “But instead, we were pulling faces and jumping on each other’s backs.”
Two hours earlier, on a warm April afternoon in an East London park, Banks was balancing on a grassy verge in ballet flats and argyle knee-high socks, holding Broome’s hand, before suddenly tipping into him. Payback, perhaps, for an earlier shot, when he somehow sent one of her shoes flying. “Put us together,” Banks says, “and we’re just the goofiest pair.”
It’s this undeniable bond that drew people to the pair in the first place, when they landed with a bang in My Fault: London, which came out in early 2025. In it, they play new step-siblings swept up in underground car racing, family fallouts, and a mutual attraction, best filed under ‘absolutely not a good idea.’
Now, their new movie, Your Fault: London, out 17th June on Prime Video, picks up exactly where fans want them: as a couple, hiding it from their families and discovering that actually, just wanting to be with each other was the easy bit.
Finding fame
It’s been a surreal ride for the 22-year-old (Banks) and 25-year-old (Broome), going from relative obscurity to the subject of fan-edits, reviews, theories and intense speculation about their private lives. The first film hit the number one spot in over 100 countries on the streaming platform, in part thanks to the fact it had a ready-made fanbase with Culpa Mía (2023), the Spanish adaptation of the same Mercedes Ron’s books.
“We definitely had to win people over,” Broome says of the existing franchise. Then, conversation turns to the way in which attention followed the pair off-screen: photoshoots and interviews, yes, but also an intense desire for their friendship to turn into a real romance.
“I completely get it,” Banks says with grace. “When I watch things, I’m straight on Instagram looking at all the cast and seeing if they’re hanging out.” Broome chimes in: “It’s so easy to watch us on screen and forget that’s not us in real life. We just have to carry on being ourselves.”
As Broome leans towards Banks as if delivering urgent news, it’s a reminder that, sometimes, the internet supplies its own storyline anyway: “In the past, there have been times when it's like... have you heard, you and I have fallen out today? Apparently we’re in an argument.”
Banks laughs. “Yeah… Should we put something on our [Instagram] Stories? A lot of this process has been us feeling scared and uncomfortable [about the attention] separately, but then realising, ‘Oh, we’re actually in this together.’”
The future of Fault
Both Broome and Banks are refreshingly engaged in the franchise; something you don’t always see from actors talking about their projects. The pair are passionate about why audiences are hungry for romance right now (“People want more cringe!” she says, while he insists escapism plays a part: “You can live it through the characters.”)
They also have a lot to say about Nick and Noah’s growth in Your Fault: London, which sees them finally together, discovering whether the thing they fought so hard for can survive in real life. University brings another student, Michael, into Noah’s orbit; work brings Sophia, an old family friend and new business partner, into Nick’s. Around them, jealousy, secrecy and family expectation begin pulling at the relationship from opposite directions, even as the attraction stays impossible to shake.
For Nick, the challenge is remaining changed. He’s left his old life of racing and violence behind for Noah; but in the sequel, the anger those things once burned off has nowhere to go. “In the first film, he fights throughout,” Broome says. “In the second, he doesn’t. There’s not a single hit on anyone. But that builds. He’s trying hard not to fall back into those habits of fighting and aggression… [but] his anger is bursting through the seams.”
What Nick has not learned, Broome says, is how to open up. “He’s never done that. And I think a lot of men don’t. So it comes out in awful ways.” Still, he didn't approach the role as simply playing “a toxic man”: “I’m not playing that. I’m playing everything inside him.”
As for Noah, Banks plays her as someone pushing back against Nick’s idea that love means letting him decide what is safest for both of them. She credits this, in part, to working with female directors Dani Girdwood and Charlotte Fassler: “Speaking to them is like having three Noah brains.”
The result is a relationship where both think they're acting out of love, and both keep making everything worse. “They have very strong opinions, and go full throttle towards them,” Banks says. “Sometimes it’s amazing, and sometimes it blows up.”
During filming, their running debate over who was really causing the chaos became literal: two hats, one reading ‘Nick’s Fault’ and the other ‘Noah’s Fault’. Film one remains disputed. The sequel, Banks says, is less complicated: “Definitely Nick’s fault.”
The long game
Broome and Banks’ energy really does bounce off each other, and their tight-knit bond is hard to overstate. OK, so they’re not finishing each other’s sentences, but they have a shared understanding of what the other is getting at, and I often catch one throwing a sly grin to the other.
“When we’re filming, you get to spend so much time together… you almost get this feeling where you don’t want to go home after work,” Banks says. The pair shot the second and third films back-to-back, so while audiences are only just arriving at Your Fault: London, Banks and Broome already know how the trilogy ends. “It doesn’t feel like I’ve said goodbye yet,” she continues. “Because it doesn’t exist for everyone else yet.”
When I ask what they’ve taken from doing this project together, Broome turns towards Banks. “The actual experience of doing it with someone who is like you — it tops it,” he tells her. Banks looks back at him and adds, “Because we do love each other so much, it’s made the whole thing so much easier.”
As for whether they’d work together again, the answer is obvious. “It’s inconceivable to think about doing something and you not being there. You will always be that for me,” Banks says sincerely. A second later, she laughs at herself. “Why am I literally crying?”
Broome nods in agreement, a moment of magic passing between the two. “We’ll be 20 years into our careers and still look across a room and have that.”
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