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FIRST LOVES FOREVER

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June 30, 2025

THE CAST OF THE NEW ROM-COM MINISERIES GET NOSTALGIC WITH WHO

- Rebecca Mitchell

FIRST LOVES FOREVER

You never forget your first love. That's certainly true for Teresa Palmer. “We would cry when we had to be apart,” the 39-year-old actress tells WHO about her formative romance. “We were so enmeshed! It was like this really potent feeling.”

In Sydney recently to promote her new miniseries, Mix Tape, Palmer stars in the nostalgic and romantic drama as Alison, a woman who reconnects with her first love, Dan (Jim Sturgess), 20 years after they dated as teens. “As I was reading the script, I was like, ‘Oh my God, I remember this,” she continues.

Over the new four-part series, the two former flames rekindle their old spark by sending each other songs, similar to how they exchanged mixtapes in their youth. Co-starring Florence Hunt (Bridgerton) and newcomer Rory Walton-Smith as the young Alison and Dan, Mix Tape jumps back and forth between 1989 and 2015, asking if we really get a second chance at first love.

imageFor Sturgess, Mix Tape isn’t the first nostalgic romance in his repertoire. The 47-year-old Londoner is perhaps best known for his turn as Dex in

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