Clark overdoes Lou’s exuberance, though; whatever emotional complexity and uncertainties the character had on the page get lost amid the performance’s insistent effervescence. “It was so joyful and amusing”, Clarke says enthusiastically.
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Matthew Lewis and his older brother cried their eyes out watching “Me Before You”. Enter Lou Clark (Emilia Clarke), a young lady from an out-of-work family, who wanders life with a smile on her face no matter what comes her way.
The chemistry between the leads and a few finely etched supporting turns provide welcome counterweight to the movie’s formulaic progression, welcome especially for those who have seen their fair share of entries in the love-story-with-medical-complication subgenre.
“This is not a decision that we’re saying is the right decision necessarily, but it’s his decision and it’s kind of true to the character that he is”. Yes it was interesting I mean when I finished I went and drank a lot of beer and ate pizza but for the three months I was on the shoot (.) and Sam was training as well so we were both in the gym together which was good.
You can find the novel “Me Before You” at Barnes & Noble or on Amazon, and the movie will start playing at all Regal Cinemas today. “But I think we – Emilia and Jojo and I – wanted to make it a bit more of a grey area”. To be sure, I’m not disparaging anyone’s beliefs and pretty much can understand where the protest is coming from, but this is the wrong target. Will’s cynical sense of humor and outright rudeness doesn’t faze Lou; soon, the two seem to be in love, with Lou determined to convince Will (who is contemplating assisted suicide) to keep on living.
And Clarke got a little weak at the knees.
Me Before You has been adapted for the screen by Jojo Moyes (One Plus One, The Girl You Left Behind and Me Before Yous sequel, After You) from her bestselling novel, and so the screenplay is faithful to the source material, with necessary omissions. After getting sacked from her bakery job and put on a financial guilt trip by her working-class dad (Brendan Coyle of Downton Abbey fame), Lou takes a flyer on a gig at the local castle to help out Will.
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She said: “It’s an fantastic thing to say!” “We look for it in yoga, or ‘If I hold this crystal, it’s going to make me feel better.’ We do that even in this modern day and age, where Netflix and chill is the only choice”. The path she carved out while writing the book remains the deepest and most engaging of them all. Suddenly, Moyes had calls from a dozen producers interested in turning her book into a movie.
