Samara Weaving and Jimmy Warden Reveal the Rule That Keeps Their Marriage from 'Getting Strained' (Exclusive)
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03/23/2025 08:00 AM
The couple worked together on Warden's directorial debut 'Borderline,' starring Weaving, Ray Nicholson and Alba Baptista, out now
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Jimmy Warden and Samara Weaving on Feb. 21, 2023Samara Weaving and Jimmy Warden aren't about a one-size-fits-all approach to marriage.
The couple have been married for five years and just released their horror-comedy Borderline, starring Weaving and marking Warden's directorial debut.
Asked in a chat with PEOPLE about the film if there are any rules they follow to keep their relationship strong, the actress says, "When I'm away or if Jimmy's away shooting, we try not to go two and a half or three weeks [without seeing each other]."
"And then we get weird," says Warden, while his wife adds that, if they are apart any longer, things "start getting strained" between them.
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"We do daily jokes too," Warden, who also wrote Cocaine Bear, continues of himself and his Ready or Not actress wife, 33. "Like, voice notes of just jokes."
One common practice the couple don't abide by? The popular never-go-to-bed-angry rule. Instead, the filmmaker tells PEOPLE, they sleep on their feelings — and sometimes the issue resolves itself.
"We go to bed annoyed, and then we wake up and we're like, 'Why were we annoyed?' " Warden says. "A lot of people talk it out until it's 2 a.m. and we're just like, 'No, let's just go to bed.' "
"Go to bed angry. It's fine," Weaving agrees.
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Set in '90s Los Angeles, Borderline stars Ray Nicholson as Duerson, an obsessive fan of Weaving's pop star Sofia who breaks into her mansion to stage their wedding.
Also starring Alba Baptista, Borderline features the wedding scene near the end of the film. Asked whether any of their own wedding-day details made it into the scene, Weaving tells PEOPLE, "We never actually had a wedding."
"We got married but then COVID hit, so we had to cancel the wedding," she says, joking that they "put in a pool" in their home instead.
"Well, we made the movie instead," adds Warden. "I guess we had our wedding, and it's in the movie."
Borderline is in theaters and on digital now.
