Samara Weaving and Jimmy Warden have found their own unique approach to maintaining a strong marriage, one that doesn’t rely on conventional rules. The couple, married for five years, recently released their horror-comedy Borderline, which marks Warden’s directorial debut and stars Weaving.
In a conversation with PEOPLE, when asked about any relationship rules they follow, Weaving shared, “When I’m away or if Jimmy’s away shooting, we try not to go more than two and a half or three weeks without seeing each other.” Warden humorously adds, “And then we get weird,” with Weaving agreeing that longer periods apart lead to things “getting strained” between them.
The couple also enjoys humor as a bonding tool. “We do daily jokes too,” Warden, who also wrote Cocaine Bear, reveals. “Like, voice notes of just jokes.”
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One rule the couple doesn’t follow, however, is the popular advice of never going to bed angry. Instead, they take a more relaxed approach. Warden explains, “We go to bed annoyed, and then we wake up and we’re like, ‘Why were we annoyed?'” He adds, “A lot of people talk it out until 2 a.m., but we just say, ‘No, let’s just go to bed.'” Weaving concurs, “Go to bed angry. It’s fine.”
In the film Borderline, set in ’90s Los Angeles, Weaving stars as Sofia, a pop star whose obsessive fan, played by Ray Nicholson, breaks into her mansion to stage their wedding. Interestingly, Weaving shares that she and Warden never had a traditional wedding due to COVID-19, joking, “We got married but then COVID hit, so we had to cancel the wedding,” and instead, “put in a pool” in their home. Warden quips, “Well, we made the movie instead,” adding, “I guess we had our wedding, and it’s in the movie.”
Borderline is now available in theaters and on digital.