Keith Powers Shares the Secret to His Relationship with Ryan Destiny: ‘We Come Back’ (Exclusive)

Keith Powers is dishing connected nan concealed to his narration pinch Ryan Destiny.

The character and Rémy Martin marque ambassador said to PEOPLE exclusively while astatine nan 2025 Cannes Film Festival successful France connected May 20, and he shared that he attributes nan occurrence of their years-long romance to nan truth that they “genuinely are champion friends” and consciousness for illustration “family.”

“I deliberation business really useful erstwhile you really do look astatine your partner [the measurement you would look at] siblings, successful a way,” Powers, 32, said. “We could fight. We mightiness not talk to each different for a minute. But we emotion each other. We travel back. You cognize what I'm saying?”

“And I consciousness for illustration for maine and Ryan … it's for illustration this is family. It's not a point wherever [it’s like], ‘Oh, I didn't for illustration [that] she did a definite point and now I don't want to beryllium successful a relationship,’ “ he continued.

Powers besides shared that his narration pinch Destiny, 30, often feels effortless because they are truthful successful sync.

“It's conscionable for illustration we're truthful locked successful and we conscionable get each other's jokes and it's conscionable easy. We conscionable travel honestly,” the Uglies star said. “And she teaches maine a lot. I don't cognize if I thatch her stuff, but she teaches maine truthful much. She's made maine a amended artist, truthful it's been great.”

Powers and Destiny divided successful 2022 aft 4 years of dating, but Destiny precocious confirmed that their narration was backmost connected while speaking to PEOPLE astatine nan ESSENCE Black Women successful Hollywood Awards connected Feb. 27.

“I conscionable emotion him truthful overmuch and I conscionable admit him each measurement of nan way,” nan character said astatine nan time. “He's specified a cheerleader for me, arsenic I americium for him. It conscionable intends everything. We're conscionable champion friends — you know, we're much than champion friends.”

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While speaking exclusively to PEOPLE astatine Cannes, Powers besides shared that he feels arsenic though he has been coming into his ain arsenic a personification and arsenic an creator — and that he attributes it to leaning into his authentic self successful caller years.

“I deliberation I was conscionable exhausted pinch nan thought of emotion for illustration I had to represent personification to people,” he said. “It became overbearing. I felt for illustration if I sewage to beryllium for illustration this, [then moving successful entertainment] isn't nosy anymore. And I learned quickly nan worldly that I conscionable wasn't bully astatine and I wasn't willing in, and I was like, ‘It's cool. I don't person to beryllium that. I tin conscionable beryllium maine and nan group who spot maine are going to judge maine for that.’ “

The character besides said that moving pinch nan French cognac location Rémy Martin has helped solidify his belief that authenticity yet leads to much fulfilling projects and collabs, noting that nan Rémy Martin imaginative squad is “just ace cool and chill,” adding, “It’s conscionable easier to beryllium myself successful those spaces.”

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“It came astir benignant of randomly, honestly,” he said of his domiciled arsenic nan company's marque ambassador. “I conscionable had a communal friend scope retired astir really nan marque [was a fan] of my work, and I was like, ‘I'm a instrumentality of Rémy Martin … So it was very integrated and natural.”