‘Last Song’ streams spike on Amazon after Cyrus’ wedding
MILEY Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth’s lovely, intimate wedding over the weekend is bringing fans back to when their love story started.
Amazon Prime Video took to Twitter on Friday to reveal that the ceremony caused a massive surge in views for “The Last Song”, the film in which the newlyweds first met back in 2009.
“Miley and Liam’s wedding had everyone feeling sentimental this week,” the tweet reads.
According to the streaming service, a tonne of subscribers were apparently feeling sentimental after Cyrus and Hemsworth’s big wedding reveal so they streamed “The Last Song” a bunch of times. Amazon Prime Video didn’t reveal an exact number, but the company tweeted on Friday that they “saw a 2,000 per cent spike in streams of ‘The Last Song’.”
The 2010 film, based on the Nicholas Sparks book, marked the first time Cyrus and Hemsworth met. Cyrus starred as Ronnie, a young girl sent by her mother to stay and reconnect with her father, who’s living in a small beach town in Georgia. There, she meets and falls in love with Will (Hemsworth), a popular, handsome gent who crashes into her during a volleyball match.
Cyrus didn’t immediately take to Hemsworth. In a 2009 interview with Seventeen, the singer said she “heard a rumour that he didn’t really want the role” and didn’t think he realised how “blessed” he was to have an opportunity like this. “Then I started talking with him, and he was just the most genuinely precious, sweet person,” she said. “And the second audition comes around, and the chemistry was instant.”
Ten years later, Cyrus, 26, and Hemsworth, 28, confirmed their private wedding ceremony took place with a series of photos posted online.
Sparks sent them a congratulatory message on Twitter, writing, “This makes me so happy.”