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London’ Stars Explain That Brutal Reveal and What It Means for the Trilogy
Editor’s note: The following contains major spoilers for Your Fault: London.
Summary
While the second installment of the trilogy is called Your Fault: London, there is plenty of blame to go around, as miscommunication drives Noah (Asha Banks) and Nick (Matthew Broome) further apart and pushes their relationship to the brink. Just when they thought they were stronger and more in love than ever, life tested them with Noah pursuing her studies at Oxford and going to parties with friends while Nick juggled the demands of work and celebrated with a colleague. Small cracks start to fracture into feelings of doubt and jealousy, and Noah and Nick find themselves having to decide whether their love is still worth fighting for.
Co-stars Banks and Broome recently sat down with me to discuss the wild ride of Noah and Nick’s romance in this second installment of their love story, and how fans can rest assured that they’ll get to see more in the already shot Our Fault: London. During the interview, they discussed having fans embrace their Noah and Nick, the challenge of bickering in a car during a race scene, dressing up like a Spice Girl, whether Michael (Joel Nankervis) was manipulating Noah, the fight that turns into a moment of passion, Briar’s (Scarlett Rayner) history with Nick, that moment Nick realizes what happened between Noah and Michael, and the light at the end of the tunnel coming for Noah and Nick in the third film.
‘Your Fault: London’ Stars Asha Banks and Matthew Broome Are Happy That Fans Have Embraced Their Noah and Nick
“We wanted to do the second book and movie as much justice as the first.”
COLLIDER: How has it felt to experience the fan reception to your version of this story? When fans start saying you guys are the best Nick and Noah ever, does that make you more nervous or more excited to hear what they will have to say about this film and about the next film, Our Fault?
MATTHEW BROOME: The fans have their preferred, or they like both, or they like none, or whatever, but it’s nice to know that we have people on our side. At the beginning of the first film, we were coming into a fan base as strangers being like, “Please like us.” It’s nice to be putting something out there for people who really want to receive it.
ASHA BANKS: I think it’s equally daunting and nerve-wracking coming back, knowing that people responded well to the first one. It’s amazing. It’s the best. We’re so lucky that people loved it and that people allowed us to exist with Nicole [Wallace] and Gabriel [Guevara], who did such an amazing job of the characters already. They’ve all been very lovely and very receptive. But you’re so right, that almost made it more nerve-wracking coming back, because we had to deliver, and we wanted to do the second book and movie as much justice as the first.
I also feel like this is the movie where some fans are going to get a little upset.
BANKS: Yes. We’re like, “Stay on our side, please! Stay with us!”
Banks and Broome also talk about making Noah and Nick their own and exploring their romance amid the action scenes.
There’s a moment in this film when Nick has to race for Lion, and Noah gets in the car before the race starts. What was it like to shoot that scene, with the two of them bickering while also trying to win the race and being trapped in the car together? What is it like to do all of that in such a confined space?
BANKS: It was so hard. That was the hardest one of the second movie. Like you said, there were so many things at once. With the first film, we’d done a lot of driving, but alone in the car with each of us separately. And we’d done a scene in the car, but it was very stable, normal driving around London. And then, suddenly we were like, “Oh, damn, now we have to do our racing, but together in a scene where we’re bickering and it’s so fast-paced.” It’s so silent when you film. Obviously, our job as actors is to bring the stakes, but it feels so silly being in a car surrounded by screens, and we’re fighting and pretending to race.
BROOME: With the crew shaking the car and spraying water on it.
BANKS: That was really one where we had to hold each other and be like, “We’ve got this. We can do this.”
It looks cool. Even if all that silliness is going on, you would never know.
BANKS: Exactly. The VFX and the crew are basically what makes that amazing, and we were thinking too much about ourselves.
Asha, how was it to dress up as one of the Spice Girls and figure out exactly what that would look like?
BANKS: Oh, my goodness, it was amazing! That was the first thing I did in my fitting when I came in for the second film. They were like, “By the way, you’re going to be Posh Spice.” And they whipped out a wig, a bob, and tried to fit my amount of hair in a wig cap, which was quite difficult, but it was so much fun. I stopped myself from asking the question of how it was such a fantastic costume for a uni party. I was like, “You know what? This has to be iconic.” I loved it. It was so much fun.
There’s a moment when Michael is talking to Noah about her relationship having to be kept a secret and about Nick’s insecurities. Do you think he’s manipulating her in that moment, or do you think he’s just being honest with her in that moment?
BANKS: I think Michael was just being honest. Especially in that moment, he comes in with his heart on his sleeve. He does fall for Noah in ways. He can see that Nick isn’t being the man that he would be to her in that moment. I think that he’s being honest. I don’t personally feel like, in that moment, he’s manipulating her. But of course, she is in a vulnerable spot, and she’s going through ups and downs in her relationship, which is what makes it so interesting. It is a debate for both of them, and for Sophia. For a lot of this film, there are a lot of questions and a lot of debate about people’s intent. That’s what makes it so interesting.
Asha Banks and Matthew Broome Discuss That ‘Your Fault: London’ Fight That Quickly Turns to Passion
“I love that scene.”
There’s the fight that you guys have at Nick’s place, after he shows up at Oxford and finds Michael in Noah’s room, that ends up getting heated. When Nick tells Noah that she’s his, they go from fighting to undressing each other pretty quickly. How was it to find that shift? What was it like to figure that moment out and to work that scene out because it does get a bit physical too and it shifts quite a bit throughout that whole sequence?
BANKS: I love that scene.
BROOME: It’s the release of tension. It’s like a musical where when words are not enough, you start singing. They’re either going to fight or …
BANKS: The other.
BROOME: … the other.
BANKS: We worked so much on that scene, in terms of the script as well. That was so important, making the shift feel like it made sense, and it only really made sense if the argument comes to a point of such intense passion.
BROOME: At the end of the day, they just want each other. That’s all.
BANKS: That’s what they’re saying.
BROOME: They just want each other.
BANKS: It was actually such a fun scene to film.
BROOME: It was.
BANKS: They do go through so much in such a short space of time and the stakes are so high. “Fame is a Gun,” by Addison Rae, is the song that is over the scene in the film, and we were playing that song as we filmed it.
BROOME: I feel like it was our first heightened, intense argument. We talked a lot about how, by this point, Noah and Nick have argued loads. They know how to push each other’s buttons. They know what each other’s going to do to piss each other off. So, we were like, “How do we incorporate that into it?” They attempt to talk like adults before they end up screaming at each other and taking each other’s clothes off.
My mind immediately went to what might have happened behind the scenes. Whenever there’s a scene where somebody has to pick someone else up, I’m always like, “Please just don’t let him have dropped her in that moment.”
BANKS: I know. Thank you! I was safe.
Matthew, knowing how Briar is and the history that Nick has with her, why do you think he believed her when she tells him that Noah has moved on and is happy without him and is with Michael?
BROOME: Because I think that’s everything that he is worried about happening and thinks is happening. He’s driving himself insane with this idea of, “Something is going to go on there. If I don’t stop it or if I stray too far, then that’s what’s going to happen, inevitably.” There’s probably a bit of ego involved with him going, “I knew it. And also, that’s the worst thing I ever want to hear.” I think the weight of, “I saw the threat coming and let it happen,” stresses him out.
The Chaos of ‘Your Fault: London’ Continues To Build Until the Cliffhanger Ending
“There’s so much that has to happen in a short space of time.”
So much happens at the end of this, with Nick and Sophia kissing where Noah can see them, Briar dropping the bomb that she used to be with Nick, and Nick learning that Noah and Michael aren’t actually together. What was all of that like to play out, having them be so at odds with each other and having all of that spiral all at once?
BROOME: That was a really tough day. I struggled with that day because you are having to get all the reveals happening at once on this staircase, and you have to play that beat and that beat.
BANKS: Yeah, that was definitely a challenging day because it’s such an important scene as well. There’s so much that has to happen in a short space of time, and each moment has to be given its own spotlight of explanation. As an audience member, you have to be able to pick up each piece in order to track what’s happening, so it was definitely a hard one to figure out. And then, add a grand staircase to it, which is where we played the scene. It was difficult. It’s hard in moments like that because you have such a gut instinct for what your character would do and how they would react, but it’s in those moments where you remember the technicalities of filming and where you have to step yourself back from your character a bit and remember that each person’s moment is integral in making the puzzle of the scene work, especially when you watch it in the edit. So much happens on the day and you remember the chaos. And then, you watch the edit and you’re like, “Oh, it makes complete sense.” The directors are amazing and they know what they’re doing, and they can piece together something and so seamlessly make it feel impactful, but with the chaos, that is true to the scene.
And yet somehow it doesn’t just stop there. This whole thing just keeps spiraling. Asha, how hard was it to shoot the moment when Nick realizes that Noah was with Michael? So much is going on, but you’re not saying much in that scene. It’s all just coming from your reaction.
BANKS: It was hard, emotionally, but it was easy. By that point, we’d filmed a lot of the film, and I find it easier sometimes to feel the emotions and react when that’s all you’re doing. I know Matt so well now. Watching Matt as Nick discover this is heartbreaking because I feel like you get to a point where you just are the person.
BROOME: It’s the moment that is so close. If that didn’t happen, they would probably have spoken it out. But it’s just the final, “Oh, no.”
BANKS: And it was exhausting to film, which was helpful, ultimately. I think we did [Matt’s] coverage first. And by the time that they turned around onto me, I was exhausted and I was like, “Oh, my goodness, this is heartbreaking.” But it was a lovely scene to film.
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Do you think Noah felt guilt in that moment? Do you think she blamed Nick? What do you think was going on with her in that moment?
BANKS: Oh, God, I think all of it at once. She has a numbness just overriding everything because it’s too much to handle in that moment. I think that a lot of their trouble comes from miscommunication, and that is one of the biggest moments of that in the film. She knows Nick and she knows that there’s nothing that she can do in that moment to talk him ‘round. She has ultimately made a mistake because of a miscommunication of what she thought happened with him and all the chaos. I do think it’s one of the only times in the film, probably, that Noah gives in. She can’t take it, in that moment.
Matthew, what was it like to have that moment between Nick and Michael? Was it hard for you to justify that level of violence from Nick, or do you feel like everything was just building up to that?
BROOME: As me, Matthew, it’s hard to justify that. But as Nick, everything up until that, with the amount of times that’s what he’s wanted to do, if he was film one Nick, he would have punched him, probably immediately. But he’s tried to do the good thing every time and not do it. That is the last straw before it explodes. With all that pent-up anger and frustration, the old Nick just comes out. He’s like Hulk in that moment. He can’t control that anymore. It’s gone. And I do believe that Michael is triggering him in that moment. He’s saying the things that he knows are going to get to Nick. It’s almost like a mutual understanding for both of them that this is going to happen. Not to justify violence, but playing Nick, I get it at that point.
Fear Not, Noah and Nick’s Story Will Continue in ‘Our Fault: London’
“You’re going to get to watch us again in a whole different phase of our lives.”
Because fans are obviously going to be left crushed at the end of Your Fault, what are you most looking forward to them getting to see with Our Fault? And how does it feel for you guys to have been able to actually complete the trilogy?
BANKS: It feels great. It’s really nice, knowing how crushed fans are probably going to be at the end of this movie and how much they’ve been through, for us to be able to say, “There’s another one. The story is not over. There’s more coming.”
BROOME: You’re going to get to watch us again in a whole different phase of our lives. The characters are older and moved on and more mature. We get to watch them handle it differently.
BANKS: There’s a light at the end of the tunnel.
BROOME: Or is there?
BANKS: Or is there?
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Along with returning to Nick and Noah for these movies, you guys each have TV series that you’ve gotten to do for two seasons, with A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder and The Buccaneers. Having done it with these movies and with your TV shows, what have you found you each most enjoy about getting to return to a character that you’ve already played and that you already know? How different has that experience been?
BROOME: I love the fact that I, as an actor, have grown and I can put that into my character growing up and also just evolving as a human. I find that really exciting. In that year, I’ve absorbed so much in my day-to-day and in my life that I can now use as experience. It gives me an opportunity to show a side of me and the character that I’ve not got to before, and I find that exciting instead of going for the same. You’re not going, “I must react exactly how I did in the first.” It gives you the space to evolve, and I find that really exciting as an actor.
BANKS: Yeah, I agree. I had a bit of a strange experience because I returned to both Cara, in a Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, and Noah, in Your Fault, basically at the same time. We were filming Season 2 just before I filmed the second My Fault movie. Before that, I knew that they were both coming again, but I had never returned to a character, so I think I was very nervous. Coming back to a character, you that thing of, “Do I know how to come back to this and play this character again? Who is she? What did I do? How did I speak?”
BROOME: And then, you realize you are her, which makes it easier.
BANKS: Yeah. Going back to Season 2 of Good Girl’s made me realize that immediately. And then, I felt much more relieved about coming back to Noah and feeling very excited to grow. We felt that being able to play a new Noah and Nick, where they are very comfortable with each other and know each other very well, as we do, was so much fun. In the first film, there wasn’t able to be as much of Asha and Matt within our characters.
BROOME: Yeah. I’m really excited for fans to see that side of our dynamic because it might, at times, be like, “Is this Nick?” You’ve never seen him in a year relationship. He’s never seen himself in a year relationship before. This is all new to him, and [the fans]. That’s fun and exciting.
Thank you guys for talking to me. It was fun to take the ride with this movie. Even though I knew what was coming, essentially, I still kept forgetting that there was more to keep spiraling.
BANKS: There’s always more. Thank you!
Your Fault: London is available to stream on Prime Video.
- Release Date
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June 17, 2026
- Director
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Charlotte Fassler, Dani Girdwood
- Writers
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Bella Heesom, Melissa Osborne, Mercedes Ron
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