Emily Bader will star alongside Tom Blyth in the Netflix film adaptation of Emily Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation, Entertainment Weekly reports.

Henry’s novel, published in 2021 by Berkley, follows Poppy and Alex, two longtime friends who reunite after a falling-out; free-spirited Poppy still harbors feelings for buttoned-down Alex. In a starred review, a critic for Kirkus praised the book as “a warm and winning When Harry Met Sally… update that hits all the perfect notes.”

The film adaptation will be written by Yulin Kuang (I Ship It) and directed by Brett Haley (All Together Now). Bader, who recently starred in Amazon Prime Video’s series adaptation of Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows’ My Lady Jane, will star as Poppy, while Blyth (Billy the Kid) will portray Alex.

On the social media platform X, Netflix posted a video of a group call in which Haley told Bader she had been cast in the film. “You’re lying!” an ecstatic Bader said. “Wait, I’m getting overwhelmed. Are you serious? Are you kidding? I’m going to cry.”

Blyth and Henry joined the call, with the author telling the actors, “I’m so excited, you guys. I have been kind of an anxious wreck about who would play these characters, and I just truly could not feel any more confident that my readers, and then so many more people who don’t even know about the book, are going to completely, completely fall in love with Poppy and Alex with you guys playing them.”

Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.