Best Friend For Life Take A Leap Of Faith To Be More Than Friends In “LOVE, ROSIE”
Taking chances on a happily-ever-after love after
childhood best friends Alex and Rosie
have gone through miles of separation, unwanted pregnancy and disastrous love
affairs, can they still end up together in the end? In “Love, Rosie” is based
on the bestselling novel “Where Rainbows End” by Cecelia Ahern and starred in
by one of Hollywood’s brightest new talents, Lily Collins (“The Mortal
Instruments:City of Bones,” “Mirror, Mirror”), co-starring Sam Claflin (“The
Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”).
The film is based on the bestselling novel,
“Where Rainbows End” from Irish author, Cecilia Ahern (“P.S. I Love You”
author) from a screenplay by Juliette Towhidi (“Calendar Girls”) and is
directed by Christian Ditter (The Crocodiles; Wickie and the Treasure of the
Gods).
“Choosing the person you want to
share your life with is one of the most important decisions any of us makes,
ever. Because when it’s wrong, it turns your life to grey, and sometimes you
don’t even notice until you wake up one morning and realize years have gone
by... Sometimes you don’t see that the best thing that’s ever happened to you
is sitting there, right under your nose,” states a line from the character
Rosie. In director Christian Ditter’s new film Love, Rosie, Lily Collins and
Sam Claflin star as Rosie and Alex, childhood friends seemingly destined to be
together, yet a couple which fate itself seems determined to keep apart. The
film paints a rich and textured canvas of a complicated yet lifelong bond
between Rosie and Alex, beginning in their childhood, spanning a trans-Atlantic
separation, and enduring ups and downs of romantic liaisons with everyone but
each other resulting in some bittersweet consequences.
A rising star in Hollywood, Lily
Collins marked her feature film debut alongside Sandra Bullock in the 2010 Oscar
nominated film “The Blind Side.” In the short time since she’s filmed “Mirror,
Mirror” with Julia Roberts, “Stuck in Love” with Greg Kinnear and Jennifer
Connelly, “The English Teacher” with Kinnear, Julianne Moore and Nathan Lane,
and “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.”
“I just fell in love with it right
away,” says Collins of the Love, Rosie screenplay and her decision to take on
the project. “After reading it, I just couldn’t imagine myself not playing the
part.” “I think everyone has a little bit of Rosie in them and I know I
certainly do,” Collins continues. “She’s charismatic, shy at times, but
determined. She’s thrown into these situations that a normal teenage girl could
be thrown into, but she doesn’t let anything deter her from reaching her
goals…. She’s a bit kooky at times, but in the most endearing way possible.
And, of course, she’s just incredibly strong.”
In collaboration with Ditter,
Collins set about making the character her own. “In a sense it was about
incorporating myself into Rosie and Rosie into me,” says the actress, who
dropped her American accent for the role while simultaneously tackling the
challenge of playing Rosie over the course of many years, following her
transition from adolescence to adulthood.
“It was a great challenge,” says
Collins of playing the character as she matures over time. “Instead of
prosthetics, it was all hair and make-up and wardrobe changes, whether I use
certain words as a young girl and then stop using them as an older one – even
her mannerisms, the way she carries herself and walks change… In the end, I
would watch the playback and go, ‘Oh my god that was so my mom!’”
“Lily is an incredibly smart and
talented actress,” says Christian Ditter. “She’s very in touch with her
feelings and very open emotionally. I basically just encouraged her to follow
her heart and make each moment as truthful as possible.”
“I’ve never felt so terrified and
vulnerable in a movie, but at the same time so protected and inspired,” Collins
continues. “I never thought I’d be able to work on this kind of level and it
was Christian who got that out of me.”
“Lily is just a little jewel,” says Simon Brooks of his leading lady.
“Every day, I’d have to say to her, ‘Do you have any idea how great your
performance is?’ She was funny, but she also had these heavy emotional scenes
that had to be treated with great care. I would also watch the people on set
when she was doing a particularly emotional scene and how moved they would be….
She’s just been so committed to this project since day one. I’m so proud of her
and what she’s done.”
“She’s a diamond,” agrees Sam
Claflin, who plays Rosie’s unattainable love, Alex on screen. “It worked so
well because we got to know each other so well,” says the young British actor.
“You have to really get on with someone if you’re going to work together on
this kind of level... I’d like to think we not only became friends, but friends
for life."
“Love,
Rosie” opens January 8 in cinemas from Pioneer Films.
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