Kyle Allen learned a lot from the instructors he was rowing with. Yet, rowing was still only a small part of his character Skylar's life. (After all, the film focuses more on his love story with Joey King's character Tessa versus his favorite sport.)
In order to learn what others around his character thought, Allen decided to ask everyone on set what their perspective was of the high school senior. "And so I'd really just fed off of them," Allen explained to The List. "What's the costume like? What do you see as the character? What does the makeup artist think?" All of these viewpoints helped him immensely when it came to creating the broken hearted teen that had us all crying throughout the film.
In the end, Allen realized that Skylar seemed familiar to him. "It had a lot of similarities to my own father," Allen said. "And so I tried to put a bit of him in there as well."
"The In Between" is available to stream Friday, February 11 exclusively on Paramount+.
