As Harris and Bush navigated these modifications, they leaned on one another and the opposite ladies of their friendship circles.
“I didn’t look forward to finding love on this assist system,” the actress wrote in an April 2024 essay for Glamour. “I don’t know the way else to say it aside from: I didn’t see it till I noticed it. And I feel it’s very straightforward to not see one thing that’s been in entrance of your face for a very long time whenever you’d by no means checked out it as an possibility and you had by no means been checked out as an possibility. What I noticed was a good friend together with her large, completely satisfied life. And now I do know she thought the identical factor about me.”
However it wasn’t till Bush requested Harris out that they realized they could possibly be one thing extra.
“Our associates have been making an attempt to set her up with somebody and I used to be like, ‘If she’s able to date, she’s f–king happening a date with me. Sorry, uh uh, no f–king manner,'” the John Tucker Should Die alum recalled on her podcast Work in Progress in July. “And other people have been like, ‘Wait, what?’ She even mentioned to me, ‘Maintain the cellphone, I at all times thought you have been straight.’ And I used to be like, ‘I at all times thought you have been completely satisfied. However we’re each f–king single. What are we doing?'”
Remembering how they “have been f–king cackling,” Bush continued, she instructed Harris, “‘Yeah, dude I by no means checked out you as an possibility.’ And she or he was like, ‘I by no means checked out you as an possibility.’ And it’s trigger we weren’t choices.”
However after their date—which Bush famous in her Glamour essay was a four-and-a-half hour-long meal and “actually some of the surreal experiences” of her life—they determined they have been each within the possibility of seeing the place their connection might go.