Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton in Cosmopolitan April 2019
Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton Look So Good on Cosmo's Latest Cover, I'm at a Loss For Words
![Charles on falling in love: "I think you can fall in love in the snap of a finger, you know? It all started when I was 13 or 14. Every girl I was with, I thought I was gonna marry . . . My head's in the clouds. I'm a dreamer. I'm a hopeless romantic!"
Charles on being an Asian-American lead in a romance film: "Being an Asian-American lead for a studio film — it almost seems like it's not real for me, you know? Growing up, I never saw anybody who looked like me, really. So it's very emotional for me . . . [After seeing Crazy Rich Asians] I cried seven times. It was just so emotional. Everyone was of Asian descent, and I was like, 'Wow.' And I'm thinking about the movie I did with Yara, and Yara is Iranian and Black. It's very surreal."](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/hnqhZ322ZotZexAHxQYx6p756R4/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2019/04/05/791/n/1922398/ff335555e2969a4d_Cosmopolitan_May_19-6/i/Charles-falling-love-I-think-you-can-fall-love-snap.jpg "Charles on falling in love: \"I think you can fall in love in the snap of a finger, you know? It all started when I was 13 or 14. Every girl I was with, I thought I was gonna marry . . . My head's in the clouds. I'm a dreamer. I'm a hopeless romantic!\"
Charles on being an Asian-American lead in a romance film: \"Being an Asian-American lead for a studio film — it almost seems like it's not real for me, you know? Growing up, I never saw anybody who looked like me, really. So it's very emotional for me . . . [After seeing Crazy Rich Asians] I cried seven times. It was just so emotional. Everyone was of Asian descent, and I was like, 'Wow.' And I'm thinking about the movie I did with Yara, and Yara is Iranian and Black. It's very surreal.\"")
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