Mckenna Grace and Joseph Zada may play acquaintances-turned-District 12 tributes in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, but that hasn’t stopped fans from shipping them in real life. Well, the co-stars have seen all those fancams and social media threads, and they recently addressed those hoping their on-screen chemistry translates to something romantic IRL. The actors debunked any notion that they’re anything more than good friends, fully bursting into laughter when Refinery29 Australia asked how they felt about people shipping them off-screen.
I mean…I think that’s the fun of the internet, is that they can ship whatever characters or people or anything that they want, as long as it’s not intruding on people’s own lives.” “Yeah, I’ve been shipped with Ben [Wang],” Joe jokingly added, referring to another one of their castmates. The pair have long maintained that they’re just friends—not to mention that, as Joseph says in the video, he and Mckenna have “both got partners” IRL. Who is Joseph’s partner, you ask?
That would be Polly Talarico, who he met in a bar in Sydney earlier this year, according to his recent interview with Vanity Fair. Mckenna is currently linked to her “best friend” and Regretting You co-star, Mason Thames, who she gushed about during her Cosmopolitan cover story when she was asked about her love life off-screen. I’m feeling very lovey-dovey,” she shared.
I got my best friend, and so I don’t see the point in not loving loudly.” She added that she and Mason are hanging out on the sets of each other’s projects so much that “he’s like an honorary member of District 12 at this point.” “There are moments that are just for you and your person. But I don’t see the point in not celebrating who you’re in love with,” she said of their public relationship. But why would I even think about that?
I’m just going to focus on the present.”
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