Darren Barnet on Love Hard and Making a Christmas Rom-Com with Nina Dobrev

[Editor’s note: Be aware that there are some spoilers discussed.] The Netflix original romantic comedy Love Hard follows L.A. journalist Natalie (Nina Dobrev), a hopeless romantic that is perpetually unlucky in love, who meets someone on the East Coast on a dating app that she’s convinced is her perfect dream guy. When she decides to surprise her crush by showing up at his home for the holidays, the surprise unexpectedly leads to a catfish reveal the moment she learns that Josh (Jimmy O. Yang) has actually been using photos of his friend Tag (Darren Barnet) to woo her. During this 1-on-1 interview with Collider, which you can both watch and read, Barnet talked about how easy the cast chemistry was to find, trying to live truthfully in the script, getting to do rock climbing and bobsledding scenes, how game Dobrev was for everything, what might have happened to Tag after the film ends, and his go-to rom-coms. He also talked about Apophenia, which is a drama that he also produced, what inspired hi