AllGeraldine Viswanathanwants is to find love.
“I tried to find that in myself.
Honestly, Lucy is my dream self.
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She just puts so much love into the world and then the world loves her back.
I felt like she would teach me a lot about how to be your most honest self.
Because it’s vulnerable to be so bleeding heart.”
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While Lucy is the first starring role for Viswanathan, it’s hardly the first one to inspire her.
That’s because Viswanathan knows nonwhite rom-com heroines are rare.
“It’s a really exciting change to be a part of.
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It feels very long overdue, if you look at the history of rom-coms.
Viswanathan creditsBlockerswith teaching her “literally everything” there is to know about acting.
“So I just went for it.
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I learned the lesson of if you’re having fun, then the people watching you are having fun.
That completely changed my life.”
“It was completely surreal but so much fun and so exhilarating to be in scenes with them.”
“Lucy definitely has a lot of Natalie’s energy,” she says.
“There was already an element of familiarity between us,” she says.
“That’s peak rom-com for me,” she says.
This is the freshest version of a rom-com.
And it was really funny.”
“It’s also very much about female friendships,” she adds.
“I really responded to that.
It’s definitely my New York fantasy.
It’s crazy to think that that was life at one point.”
