Beanie Feldstein and her girlfriend, Bonnie Chance Roberts, are engaged! Feldstein introduced the information on Instagram on June 23, posting pictures from Roberts’s proposal with the caption, “I do, Bon.” Roberts proposed in a yard adorned with pink and purple flowers, and the couple’s family and friends — together with Feldstein’s brother Jonah Hill and best friend, Ben Platt — had been available to have fun.
Feldstein and Roberts met again in 2018 when Feldstein was filming “How to Build a Girl” within the UK, the place Roberts is from. Roberts was a producer on the film, which got here out in 2019. The pair had been bodily separated for many of 2020 and a few of final yr due to COVID-19 quarantine guidelines, with Roberts caught overseas — however they lastly reunited in person in 2021.
Roberts additionally introduced their engagement information on her Instagram Story with a photograph of the proposal. She added the music “She Loves You” by The Beatles, which is especially applicable since — just like the band — Roberts is from Liverpool.
Feldstein beforehand advised Teen Vogue that she wasn’t a relationship individual till she met Roberts. She defined, “It simply wasn’t one thing I considered or craved. Not to sound flippant, however I used to be in love together with her and all of her, and he or she’s a lady. . . . That’s not scaring me or deterring me. And it wasn’t simply girls generally; it was her, particularly.”
Feldstein additionally opened up about her sexuality on the 2019 premiere of “Booksmart” at SXSW. In the film, she performs uptight Molly, who desires one night time of untamed partying, whereas Kaitlyn Dever‘s Amy is a lesbian chasing after a classmate she has a crush on. According to Page Six, Feldstein stated throughout a panel on the time, “It was fully significant for me to watch the movie. My associate is a lady. There’s a love scene between two ladies, and so they’re fumbling with their sneakers, and so they cannot get their denims off. All of these moments, they make me tear up, as a result of illustration is actually essential.”
She added, “I feel if I might have seen our movie earlier, I might have discovered myself a bit sooner.”
Feldstein’s engagement information comes shortly after it was introduced that her run in “Funny Girl” on Broadway will finish this September.