Angourie Rice stars in Finding Emily, a rom-com filmed in Manchester that both celebrates and questions love story conventions. She read a specific book to prepare and had to pretend to be in love every day on set, balancing homage to the genre with meta-examination of how these stories actually work.
Tell me about what you're working on. I've got a movie coming out called Finding Emily. It's a rom-com set in Manchester, filmed in Manchester, and much like this book— I mean, I read this book in preparation to make Finding Emily— much like this book, it perfectly balances, I think, interrogating the rom-com and paying homage to it at the same time. It is a love story, and it is also an interrogation of how we move through love stories and how we tell them. Yeah. Was it hard for you, the part? I got to go to work and, like, pretend to be in love every day. Isn't that the greatest thing ever?
