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[Warning: This story contains major spoilers for Prime Video’s Every Year After.]
Michael Bradway didn’t know he was auditioning for Every Year After.
Last February, the actor came in for a series titled Meet Cute, a decoy for Prime Video’s adaptation of Carley Fortune’s 2022 bestseller Every Summer After. “I didn’t know that this was based off of a book; I didn’t know that this was a Carly Fortune novel. They changed the [character] names as well. I don’t even remember what my character’s name was, but it wasn’t Charlie,” Bradway tells The Hollywood Reporter in a conversation ahead of the series’ June 10 premiere.
A need for secrecy on the project is no surprise given the fanfare surrounding the source material and author. Fortune’s books have sold 4.7 million copies, with Every Summer After spending 16 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list, selling over 1 million copies to date, and finding a second life on BookTok.
