‘The Drama’: Do Emma & Charlie End Up Together After the Twist?
What To Know
- In The Drama, Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie’s (Robert Pattinson) face a major obstacle before their wedding day.
- Emma reveals the worst thing she’s ever done, causing Charlie to spiral.
- Find out if they actually get married and stay together in the aftermath.
The Drama may begin as a sweet romance between the awkward Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and the sweet Emma (Zendaya), but it doesn’t remain that way for long. Their meet-cute, as Charlie later remarks, is literally right out of a movie. (Warning: Spoilers for The Drama below.)
At a café, Charlie pretends to be familiar with the book Emma’s reading, but she doesn’t hear his attempts at conversation at first. She’s deaf in one ear and has an earbud in the other. From then on, they fall for each other quickly, so it makes sense when the movie flashes forward to the week before their wedding day.
Emma and Charlie are as in love as ever when their relationship unexpectedly implodes. Emma’s been holding onto a secret since her teenage years, something she hasn’t told even Charlie. When it comes to light, Charlie starts to wonder if he truly knows the person he’s about to marry, spiraling but never quite calling it quits with Emma. So, what exactly is the reason for all of the drama in The Drama? We’re breaking down the wild twist, and if Charlie and Emma manage to overcome it.
What is the twist in The Drama?
If you’ve been online lately, The Drama‘s twist is exactly what you think it is. Days before their wedding, Emma gets drunk with Charlie and two of their friends, married couple Rachel (Alana Haim) and Mike (Mamoudou Athie). They reveal that right before their own wedding, they told each other the worst things they’ve ever done. For Mike, it was using an ex as a human shield during a dog attack. When she was a teenager, Rachel locked a mentally disabled kid in an RV’s closet overnight. He was found after a search party went out to look for him, so she never had to come clean and got away with it.
Charlie’s was that, in his teens, he cyber-bullied a kid so badly that they moved away. But the bombshell his fiancée drops afterward somehow makes that seem tame: Emma planned a school shooting when she was a teenager. Charlie thinks she’s joking at first, but it quickly becomes clear that she’s serious. She even practiced shooting her dad’s rifle, causing her deafness, and brought it to school.
Rachel is immediately up in arms, since her cousin was paralyzed in a shooting. From then on out, Charlie spirals with this new knowledge of his bride-to-be as their wedding day creeps closer. He finds out that Emma, who was once bullied and isolated, almost went through with it until another mass shooting happened in her community, essentially stealing what would’ve been her thunder. Somehow, she becomes a gun violence prevention activist in the aftermath.
Do Emma and Charlie end up together in The Drama?
Against all odds, Emma and Charlie’s wedding day does arrive, and the tension escalates when Rachel, who reluctantly agrees to remain Emma’s maid of honor, vaguely alludes to Emma being a bad person. After that, Emma overhears Charlie’s coworker Misha (Hailey Gates) mention a school shooting. Emma pulls her new husband and Misha into a room to confront her about it, but Misha assumes she means to talk about Charlie almost having sex with her. (It happens during his spiral. He hypothetically asks Misha what she would do if she found out her boyfriend had planned a shooting. Charlie becomes overwhelmed, kissing Misha and pulling her clothes off before stopping.)
When Charlie is giving his speech at the reception, things only get worse. He says he loves Emma, but also assures her that she didn’t do anything wrong — without saying what “anything” is — and apologizes for cheating on her with Misha. Misha’s boyfriend, who’s one of the wedding guests, headbutts Charlie, and Emma flees the scene. Charlie looks for his wife after, but comes up empty-handed. He heads to the diner where they planned to go after the reception. Emma walks in shortly after, and they pretend they’re meeting for the first time, hopeful and smiling at each other. It seems they’re going to try to be together, in spite of everything.
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