Haley Lu Richardson Dishes On Will & Stella's True Love Story in 'Five Feet Apart'

Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse are one of our fave new on-screen couples, since the premiere of their new movie, Five Feet Apart.

The 24-year-old actress recently spoke to ET about their “instantaneous” chemistry.

Haley recalls that they “both just really cared about doing a good job, and doing justice to these characters, and making it as grounded and lived in as possible…he’s a nice, cool guy in real life, so I think it’s one of those things where if both people are willing to commit to telling the story properly and believing the words they are saying, then it kind of happens.”

She also opened up about the intimacy in the movie, that instead of Will and Stella falling in love by touch, it’s by emotion instead.

“There’s no sex scene in the movie. There’s no big make-out scene. They genuinely fall in love because they have this connection,” Haley says. “I’m sure they are physically attracted [to each other] and they find the way they look in their bodies beautiful…It’s about their vulnerability, and how they show each other in other ways to one another, and that’s what’s beautiful. That’s what’s refreshing and innocent, and kind of awkward.”

Five Feet Apart is out in theaters now.