A little over a year ago, Lili Reinhart posted a TikTok video from the set of The Love Hypothesis in which she and costar Tom Bateman acted out the “one-armed girlfriend lift,” a popular trend where the guy effortlessly scoops up his significant other using only one arm. It was one of our first looks at the on-screen versions of Olive and Adam, the enemies-to-lovers couple that set BookTok readers afire. At the time of this article’s publishing, the video has garnered over 84.5 million views.

“If 80 million people watch this movie, fucking great,” Bateman says emphatically over Zoom when I bring up the video’s virality. For the notoriously offline actor, participating in regular TikTok videos required some convincing at first, but “I guess if you’re gonna go into that world, who better to be holding your hand throughout it than Lili Reinhart, who has a small country of followers?” he says, flashing a grin. I’m happy to report Reinhart and Bateman’s viral TikToks have continued for the film’s press tour.

The 37-year-old English native lets out a laugh before launching into what he describes as a pretentious actor thing to say: “There was something in it that felt so inherently Olive and Adam. We are so different. Lil and I are from different parts of the planet. We come from such different places. She comes with this tidal wave of online followers, and I am flying this flag of ‘Be present and in the moment. Put your phone down. Get off the internet and look around.’ And in that meeting of these worlds, there was something quite beautiful about it.”