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Anne Hathaway Admits If Harry Styles Is the Romantic Inspiration successful 'The Idea of You' (Exclusive)
This communicative contains spoilers from The Idea of You movie and book.
Robinne Lee had a somewhat different idea of the communicative she was trying to tell.
The Idea of You author shared her absorption to the novel's movie adaptation starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine—which is present streaming connected Amazon Prime—and she has immoderate thoughts connected however the movie changed the book's ending.
The Idea of You follows 40-year-old creation assemblage owner Solène who starts a narration with 20-year-old lad bander Hayes Campbell. And portion the duo person a existent emotion connection, the publication ends with Solène choosing to extremity the narration due to the fact that it was negatively affecting her teenage girl and her creation assemblage business.
However, the movie offers a caller ending, with a abbreviated epilogue acceptable 5 years aboriginal showing that Solène and Hayes bash so get backmost together.
"That's not the communicative I wanted to tell," Robinne told Entertainment Weekly in an interrogation published May 3. "I wanted to marque a constituent astir how, arsenic women, we enactment others' happiness earlier our own."
And while she was not progressive successful the adaption—which was written by Michael Showalter and Jennifer Westfeldt—she does recognize wherefore definite aspects of the book, including the ending, were changed.
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"The publication is simply a book, and the movie is simply a movie," she said. "You person to measurement distant and fto the filmmakers bash what they're going to bash and not get excessively acrophobic with what it is you've created and erstwhile it stops due to the fact that it's a wholly antithetic medium."
And erstwhile it comes to the caller ending, Robinne understands that movie viewers often person occupation with films that extremity connected a bittersweet note.
"It's America—Hollywood's going to bash what they're going to do, and they're going to propulsion a blessed ending connected everything," she said. "I don't cognize why. You anticipation they'll support to what you've written due to the fact that it meant thing to you, but you besides person to deliberation astir the container bureau and viewers and what their assemblage is going to privation to see."
On the different hand, Robinne—who has besides acted successful films like Fifty Shades Darker and Seven Pounds—pointed retired that a movie like Titanic, which has a famously bittersweet ending, did good with viewers. In fact, she went to spot the film successful theaters four times due to the fact that she wanted to cry, adding, "Crying makes maine consciousness similar I'm alive."
And portion she isn't opposed to revisiting her beloved characters successful the future, she's not wholly sold connected the idea for Solène and Hayes just yet, saying, "Maybe years down the line, I'll spell back, and I'll springiness them much clip together. But we'll see."
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Another change made to the movie was the determination to property up Hayes from 20 to 24, thing Robinne besides takes contented with.
"I had to marque it consciousness a small unsafe," she explained. "I wasn't going to marque him illegal, but I wanted it to rise eyebrows. I felt similar 24 was playing it excessively safe." (The actor, Nicholas, is presently 29 years old).
One burning question Robinne did not address is whether the quality of Hayes Campbell is based astatine each on One Direction alum Harry Styles. But arsenic Anne emphatically told E! News recently, "No! Everyone needs to chill. Sorry, I astir apt shouldn't beryllium that reactive astir it. I conscionable deliberation no."
After watching The Idea of You on Prime, support speechmaking to find what caller you should work adjacent earlier checking retired its on-screen adaption.
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Starring: Lola Tung, Christopher Briney, Gavin Casalegno, Sean Kaufman and Rain Spencer
Premieres: July 14 on Amazon Prime Video
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Han teased that fans should expect major differences betwixt the 2010 publication and the upcoming season. "There's ever gonna beryllium changes present and there," the showrunner told E! News successful December. "So I conjecture you'll conscionable person to hold and see."
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Starring: Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj
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Starring: Nicholas Galitzine, Taylor Zakhar Perez, Uma Thurman, Sarah Shahi, Stephen Fry and Rachel Hilson
Premieres: Aug. 11 connected Amazon Prime Video
Why We're Excited: Make definite you have your A.C. connected afloat blast earlier speechmaking oregon watching McQuiston's steamy secret romance between Alex Claremont-Diaz (Perez), the lad of the President of the United States, and Britain's Prince Henry (Galitzine). Trust us, relations betwixt the U.S. and the British person ne'er been hotter.
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Based On: Bonnie Garmus' 2022 caller of the aforesaid name.
Starring: Brie Larson, Lewis Pullman, Stephanie Koenig, Aja Naomi King, Thomas Mann and Beau Bridges
Premieres: Oct. 13 connected Apple TV+
Why We're Excited: In the 1950s-set series, Larson plays Elizabeth Zott, an aspiring idiosyncratic whose ambitions are enactment connected clasp successful a society that insists women beryllium successful the home sphere. After she finds herself pregnant, a hopeless Elizabeth accepts a occupation arsenic a big connected a TV cooking show, which she turns into an opportunity to animate overlooked housewives to alteration the presumption quo. This gyration truly volition beryllium televised.
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Based On: Patricia Cornwell's mega-popular bid of the aforesaid sanction that has 26 books successful total
Starring: Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis
Premieres: TBD connected Amazon Prime Video
Why We're Excited: If it's based connected a publication and Kidman stars successful it, we volition binge the s--t retired of it. (See: Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers and The Undoing.) Add successful the information that the Oscar victor and Curtis—who bought the Kay Scarpetta publication rights backmost successful June 2021—will beryllium playing crime-fighting sisters and it's already go our favourite caller amusement of the year.
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Starring: Shailene Woodley, Betty Gilpin, DeWanda Wise, Gabrielle Creevy, Blair Underwood and Sean Meehan
Premieres: TBA on Starz
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