New York Times-bestselling novelist Curtis Sittenfeld broke out with her 2005 debut “Prep,” which unpacked the layered coming-of-age of a teenager at a private boarding school. Since then, she’s sp…
New York Times-bestselling novelist Curtis Sittenfeld broke out with her 2005 debut “Prep,” which unpacked the layered coming-of-age of a teenager at a private boarding school. Since then, she’s spun “Pride and Prejudice” for the 21st century with 2016’s “Eligible” and reimagined the fictional lives of Laura Bush in “American Wife” and Hillary Clinton in “Rodham.
“Romantic Comedy” focuses on Sally and Noah when they’re in their mid- to late 30s, whereas a few of your other novels like “Rodham” and “American Wife” have spanned the course of your characters’ lives. What went into that decision to have your characters be at that age this time around? There’s kinds of confusion that people commonly feel in their twenties. There’s different kinds of confusion you feel as you get older, and I think I’m more interested in the older confusion. [Sally] had a so-called “starter marriage,” so her perspective is not like, “Oh, I’ll find someone and the ultimate dream is that I’ll get married, and then that will resolve what’s wrong with my life or what’s missing with my life.” She never really thinks that.
You’ve previously cited “The Idea of You” by Robinne Lee as a book that you enjoyed recently, and it’s being. What about the book will the film need to capture and preserve in order to maintain the original appeal of the story? First of all, that book does so many things very well. The sex scenes are great, and there’s a lot of them. The chemistry between the main characters is very persuasive. In theory, it shouldn’t really add up that like, a 40-year-old woman and a 20-year-old boy band heartthrob are into each other in both directions, but I feel like their chemistry is very believable. They’re both very appealing, and they’re three-dimensional characters. I will definitely make time to see that one.
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