Mason Thames Says He and McKenna Grace Filmed Nimrods Before Regretting You; Discussing Another On-Screen Pairing

Mason Thames said he and McKenna Grace had already worked together on an earlier project before they appeared as romantic opposites in the Colleen Hoover adaptation Regretting You. Thames made the disclosure while promoting Nimrods, a film now in theaters that he described as drawing from Green Day’s sound and atmosphere.

In an interview reported by Deadline on August 15, Thames said that when he and Grace began discussing their characters for Regretting You, their connection was already established behind the scenes. He said they had filmed Nimrods first, with Grace’s role and their shared work on the Green Day-inspired movie coming before the release of the romance last October.

Thames did not outline production dates or a release schedule for Nimrods in his remarks as reported, but he referenced the sequence of their collaboration. “So we did Green Day,” he said, according to the report, describing the earlier filming of Nimrods as the foundation for their later onscreen pairing in Regretting You.

The actor added that seeing their different roles play out across separate projects has him thinking about the possibility of working together again. He discussed “another job together,” framing the conversation around their shared experience on multiple sets rather than a new casting decision.

Grace’s film Nimrods appearance is positioned in the reporting as Thames’s latest screen project following the wider attention that came with Regretting You. That October premiere, as characterized in the report, placed the two actors in a romance that allowed them to take opposite directions in the same story world, increasing audience familiarity with their chemistry.

Nimrods is described in the report as the Green Day-inspired movie that Thames said he and Grace had already filmed. The reporting ties the two projects together by chronology, with Thames indicating that their work on Nimrods preceded the filming and release of Regretting You rather than following it.

Thames’s remarks also suggest that audiences who noticed the pair in the Colleen Hoover romance may see a familiar dynamic reconfigured in Nimrods. No further casting details or production plans were included in the Deadline account beyond the actor’s openness to another collaboration.

Neither Deadline nor Thames’s quoted comments, as reflected in the report, identified any finalized project that would follow up on the idea of “another job together,” leaving the next step dependent on future scheduling, studio decisions, and casting agreements.