Supernova will begin screening in New Zealand cinemas on February 25. It wasn't a stretch for Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth to play a married couple. The two have been close ever since they co-starred in TV movie Conspiracy in 2001: supporting each other through Firth's separation from wife Livia Giuggioli in 2019 and the death of Tucci's first wife, Kate, from breast cancer in 2009. They both live in London and their kids are friends, so they already had a palpable connection when it came time to shoot romantic drama Supernova (which begins screening in New Zealand cinemas from February 25). "When you're great friends with someone, and you've been through so much and shared so much, you start to feel like a married couple," Tucci says. As actors, "you're catapulted into these relationships where you must be intimate with people, emotionally or physically. When that's a person you've known for 20 years, it just makes that a little bit easier”.