The Idea of You author Robin Lee reacts to the changes made to the ending of her 2017 bestseller film adaptation, The Idea of You. talking to Entertainment Weekly, The author shared how she was ‘not involved in the adaptation at all’ and why she chose the original ending in the first place. (Also read: The Idea Of You’s Nicholas Galitzine has this to say about comparisons with Harry Styles: ‘I think Hayes is…’)
what the author said
In a recent interview, the author said, “I was not involved in the adaptation at all. I haven’t even talked [director] michael [Showalter] Still, but I’m looking forward to meeting him, so no, I haven’t talked to him about any changes… The book is a book, and the movie is a movie. You have to step back and let the filmmakers do what they’re going to do and not be worried about what you’ve made and when it stops because it’s a completely different medium.
The film offers a surprise twist where Hayes (Nicholas Galitzine) and Caroline (Anne Hathaway) meet after 5 years. He appears in her gallery, and has a tearful smile. However, such an ending is not given in the book, as the two do not end up together.
‘This is not the story I wanted to tell’
Talking about the decision to end the book on that note, Robin also said, “I mean, the movie could have ended in the book as well, I think, years later. But that’s not the story I wanted to tell. I wanted to talk about how, as women, we put the happiness of others before our own. She chose her daughter before Hess, and she was also well aware that she was disappointing her best friend, Lulit, her business partner and co-owner of her gallery, who was suffering from Hess’s relationship. Was. He had to put those other things first. It would have been great if she could have balanced all three, but she couldn’t at that time.”
The Idea of You is now streaming on Prime Video.
