Netflix has cornered the market on Noah Centineo. Want him to star in your upcoming romantic comedy? Sorry, but no. You can’t have him, because Netflix does. It is holding tight to its homegrown leading man and it is not letting go, casting him in yet anther romantic comedy—his third for the streamer!—titled The Perfect Date. In a trailer released Tuesday, Centineo plays Brooks Rattigan (an unbelievable name that should belong to, say, an oft-forgotten Southern cocktail or a special type of golf club), a strapped-for-cash high-schooler who realizes he can make a lot of money by loaning himself out to rich kids who need last-minute dates to things.

“I’ve always wanted to date the most popular girl, drive the nicest car, and go to the fanciest school—but I can’t afford any of that,” he reasons in the beginning of the trailer. That school, by the way, is Yale (so hot right now). His side-hustle begins when he avails his date services to a rich kid whose cousin doesn’t have a date to the semi-formal dance. It’s a dash of She’s All That meets To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, if Lana Condor’s character were paying Centineo’s character lots of dough to be her fake boyfriend. Our boy Brooks Rattigan starts hustling, becoming whichever guy these dates want him to be for the night.

But of course, his new gig isn’t without downsides. His relationship with best friend Murph (Odiseas Georgiadis) starts to falter as he gets caught between his old crowd and his wealthy new one, which includes a dalliance with popular girl Shelby Pace (Riverdale royalty Camila Mendes). He starts to lose himself in the music, the moment. “I’ve been so many people these past few months—a cowboy, an art connoisseur, and a bad friend,” he mourns. We’ve all been there.

The Perfect Date, set for an April 12 release, is Centineo’s third rom-com with Netflix in under a year, which is somewhat unbelievable (almost as unbelievable as the name Brooks Rattigan). His first turn was in To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, the zeitgeist-y hit that really cemented his status as a rising star last summer, followed by Sierra Burgess Is a Loser. Thanks to his charm and endless comparisons to a young Mark Ruffalo (the Ruff sees it too), Centineo has quickly become the streamer’s latest star. Next on the horizon? A To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before sequel, assuring a fresh upcoming chapter in this powerful union.

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You’ve Got Mail’s Stealthy Star Power: 8 Featured Actors You May Have Forgotten



1 / 8 Chevron Chevron From Warner Bros/Everett Collection. Dave Chappelle You may remember Chappelle better than most of the other actors on this list; he played Joe Fox’s best friend, Kevin, and therefore logged a little more screen time than, say, Chris Messina (whom we’ll get to in a few). Chappelle’s shining moment? Being the first to find out that Joe’s online crush, “Shopgirl,” is, in fact, his competitor, Kathleen Kelly. As he tells Joe seconds later, “If you don’t like Kathleen Kelly, I can tell you right now: you ain’t gonna like this girl.”

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