'JUICY WHEN THERE IS CONFLICT BETWEEN TWO CHARACTERS'

In the Idea of You; Anne Hathaway plays Solene Marchand, a 40-year-old single mother who begins an unexpected romance with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell

How do you know you have a perfect romantic comedy at hand? For Hollywood star Anne

Hathaway, it is when there is a ‘pleasurable conflict’ between two characters, much like one of her favourites ‘It Happened One Night’.

In her upcoming film ‘The Idea of You’, the Oscar winner plays Solene Marchand, a 40-year-old single mother who begins an unexpected romance with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell, played by Nicholas Galitzine, the lead singer of ‘August Moon’, the hottest boy band on the planet.

‘It Happened One Night’, a 1934 love story featuring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, starts with some friction between the lead characters. It follows Ellie, a pampered socialite seeking liberation from her father, who falls in love with a roguish reporter, Peter.

This conflict, Hatha way said, was also present in ‘The Idea of You’, set to premiere on ‘Prime Video’ globally on May 2.

“One of my favourite rom-coms is one with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert called ‘It Happened One Night’ and so any time you can get believable tension and conflict between the two characters, that is very juicy. Conflict is really important, but it has to be a pleasurable conflict,” the actor told PTI in an international roundtable interview.