All of You director William Bridges spoke to ComingSoon about his new sci-fi romance movie, which Bridges co-wrote with star Brett Goldstein. Bridges discussed its themes, building off the TV show Soulmates, and more. All of You will stream on Apple TV+ starting September 26, 2025.

“Best friends since college, Simon (Emmy Award winner Brett Goldstein) and Laura (Imogen Poots) drift apart when she takes a test that finds her soulmate despite years of unspoken feelings between them. Over the years, as their paths cross and diverge, neither can deny the feeling that they’ve missed out on a life together. Faced with the uncertainty of changing the course of their lives, are Simon and Laura willing to risk everything to experience the love that had been between them all along, or should they accept their fate?” says the official synopsis.

Tyler Treese: Such a pleasure to speak with you. I really enjoyed All of You. The movie jumps around years and big milestones. There’s a decade of life experience that is explored in this film. What was the biggest challenge in telling this story over such a period of time and really trusting the audience to engage and follow with it?

William Bridges: The challenge was knowing how little information we could give the audience so they would know what’s going on, because we just wanted to trust the audience. People are smart. They’ve seen loads of movies with lots of different kinds of uses of how time changes through it. We wanted people to really be tracking the interest and the intrigue, and how does Simon and Laura feel about each other now?

So you go, “Oh, right, there’s a wedding, so that a certain amount of time has passed. How is their relationship gonna play out over this?” The challenge I think was kind of working out, not how much information we needed to give people, but how little we could get away with. So it would be a fun detective story.

We wanted people to know the certain things that were going on in terms of the relationship, but we wanted it to be fun in the way that you kind of work out how much time has passed.

Yeah, it definitely makes sense. And Brett and you did the TV show Soulmates Together, which has a similar premise. That had its season two renewal, which was then retracted. Were any of those ideas that you had for the future of Soulmates kinda implemented here? Or how was it having these two projects that are separate but are very much in conversation with one another?

In real terms, not much, but I think kind of like when we got to the end of One Season one, we knew we had this other story. Because we’d made a short film with those characters in many years before, it was what got the interest in the TV show.

And we talked about those characters so much over the course of making the show that when we knew season two wasn’t gonna happen, but we have to tell this story. So I think in terms of what we would pull from it was just that feeling of we’re not done. We’re not done with this particular story, so we need to tell this story.

So we literally found out season two was happening and we sat down, we’re like, this is a film. And we wrote it together with no interest or anything like that. So we just wrote it ’cause we felt we needed to. And then once we wrote it, it was a spec script that went out and got some money to make it.

Luckily you made the best out of the situation for sure.

Life gives you lemons…

The story follows two people in an affair, and people inherently do not like cheaters. So what was tricky about grounding the story with and making people care about these characters, even when they’re doing something that is kind of definitively dislikable? There’s a scene about an hour in with Steven Cree that’s just really brutal, and you really feel for him. So how is it balancing all that and telling this very honest story?

Yeah, I think when it came down to it, it wasn’t tricky ’cause we’d talked about it quite a lot. About how these relationships were gonna work, and what we realized very early on, before we even started writing the script, was to be non-judgmental about all of the characters. Like, they are good people, but they are in a situation that is problematic, right? That would bring crisis for them — internal crisis.

So we didn’t wanna judge it. We said this, “These are the people and this is the situation, and how are they gonna deal with it? How would they react to it?” We just tried to be honest with it. So, to get over the trickiness of something that is morally problematic for people was to say, “Well, this happens in life, and the people that it happens to can be good people as well.”

So, let’s just explore those situations through these characters and see where it takes us. That was really our guiding light for it.

I love the sci-fi element and people trying to make love of science. We see this in our current lives as well, with matchmakers and apps giving compatibility scores. How is it combining seeing that contrast of the sci-fi ideal partner, but then telling a very human and very messy story? What did you like most about that contrast?

It’s about the ideas about creating an absolute truth. That there is one person in the world out there for you to challenge that idea because we get told that idea quite a lot. Like romance movies tell us that a lot. That’s the basis of monogamy.

Yet we know that that isn’t always the case. Like people can love one person, have feelings for another person. We know that happens. So the best way to challenge the idea is to say that it’s true and go, “But what if, right?” Like, so this is absolutely a hundred percent true, but then what if this person cares about two people? How does that work, and what problems does that create, and how do people deal with it?

When you look at those problems, you realize those are problems that exist in real relationships. So that was why we did it. We created it to challenge it.