My Oxford Year from Netflix had to shoot this scene of karaoke several times for a good reason

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Netflix could be responsible for one of the best limited series of the year in “adolescence”, but that does not mean that the streamer forgot how to produce the easily excessive melodramas that helped him win the streaming wars. “My Oxford Year” is the latest Netflix Romance film and it is really a nonsense. But it is sort of fun non -stakes in that this makes no attempt to apologize for his young modern fairy tales for young adults.

The film features Sofia Carson, who played Nora Parisi in Netflix’s “hand luggage” and made a name for as an aspiring queen of romantic dramas of Netflix, starting with “Purple Hearts” of 2022 and continuing to the romantic comedy “The Life List” (which dominated the prize list of Netflix in 2025). Now, she has returned for more romance with “My Oxford Year”, a Booktok fantasy comes to life in which she plays Anna de la Vega, an American student who spent a year studying Victorian poetry at the University of Oxford. Once there, she almost immediately falls in love with the student and the tutor in English Jamie Davenport (Corey Mylchreest), who charms Anna with her love of poetry and her desire to sing Coldplay really bad.

After the pair took a bad start when Jamie splashes Anna by crossing a puddle nearby with her car, it takes long for the latter to fall for the British charm of the first. And although most of this happens because of their shared love of Victorian literature, this is greatly helped by Jamie’s terrible interpretation of Co -yellow “yellow” during a karaoke evening. Jamie’s silly side immediately provokes Anna’s fainting, and the rest of the film sees them embarking on a passionate love story that becomes a little gloomy when Jamie, uh, dies. Yes, things take a tour of the film, but for the first half at least, it’s just a good old-fashioned romantic cheese, and the karaoke scene is one of the best examples.

The whole scene is a snapshot of extended Romanesque films in which the heart is ridiculed, thus revealing an endearing stupidity which quickly drops his admirer. You have seen it a thousand times before, “500 days of summer” to “PS I Love You”, and in “My Oxford Year”, there is no attempt to overthrow the standard tropes. It’s just a stupid but a little fun in a way that causes teeth. Poor Mylchreest also had to do it several times, which means that there are not only alternative sockets but also several versions of the scene with a completely different song.

Corey Mylchreest spoke to the Hollywood Reporter of “My Oxford Year” and his experience of filming Netflix. The actor, who previously played King George in “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story”, also provided an overview of the karaoke scene, which he apparently found as difficult to look at as the rest of us. He admitted to the exit that it was “a very painful for me to look at” and that he attended a cast and the projection team with a hat just so that he could pull him down and block his ears during this scene. “God was so bad,” he added. If it is difficult to look at, it must have been even more difficult to shoot, especially since Mylchreest had to film several catches.

Indeed, in the same interview, the actor also revealed that he had shot the karaoke scene with two different songs. Asked if he had his say on what the song could be for this scene, Mylchreest replied“”I was ready for anything, but [the song] was decided in advance, “before adding”, we actually filmed two versions of this. We filmed it with “ Yellow ” and we also filmed it with “ Careless Whisper ” because we did not know what we would get the rights. “According to the actor, he also had to turn two versions with each song – a catch where Jamie” tried to do it sincerely, then failing, then was going to joke “and another where he” took everything from the start “.

Despite his aversion to watch the finished scene, Mylchreest conceded that the director Iain Morris had chosen the right song with “Yellow” rather than the success of George Michael in 1984. “I understand why they chose that”, he admitted, “because also at that time Jamie-not that there is the above-but had the upper on Anna. […] There is a little power dynamics. I think it was important that at that time, she obtained the upper hand, and he does not take it. “” Yellow “has this part of Falsetto, which makes an important rhythm where Jamie goes from the song of good to crack.

“My Oxford Year” is now in difficulty on Netflix.