"When they came up with Thea, I didn’t know her but I called her that evening. When Sharrock's name was finally confirmed, Moyes couldn't wait to speak to her. So when they told me they were speaking to director upon director, and this was a long search, I felt confident that they were putting some serious thought into this." "I felt that, you know, they hadn’t wanted me to change anything, they wanted to keep it as a British production, they wanted to keep the ending, they wanted to keep the character of the movie very true to the book. "I absolutely trusted them," she confessed. Moyes added: "The moment you hand over your book you have to accept the decisions that are made are not necessarily going to be yours, and I was lucky that they chose to include me on a lot of the decisions." Having seen how much effort the film team put into finding Sharrock, Moyes felt confident they were handling her "baby" well enough. She really made this journey worth fighting for, for me as an actor. In an Instagram post by lead star Sam Claflin this week, he wrote: "Thea really was the beating heart of this experience. And it seems the whole cast was pretty enthralled by Sharrock. Moyes didn't get to choose the director who took on the project, but it's fair to say she was more than happy with the decision. She hit it off with director Thea Sharrock straight away. “The more I read the more I realised it’s not a black and white issue, you know, that there’s not necessarily a right or a wrong to it and I guess as a writer that’s what fascinates me.”Īnd this soon became the basis for Me Before You: “So what I wanted to do was to write a story about a man who is uncompromising and who makes a decision that nobody else around him agrees with and put myself in the shoes of him, his mother, and maybe somebody who wanted to change his mind.”Ģ. “I couldn’t understand it and I’m one of these people that if I don’t understand something I have to read as much as I can about it,” Moyes said. “At the same time I heard a news story about a young sportsman who had been left quadriplegic after an accident, who had several years later persuaded his parents to take him to Dignitas, and I couldn’t get this story out of my head. “And I think if you exist with that situation close to you, you are very conscious of issues of quality of life, the right to die issue, all those things.”īut it was when she came across a story on the radio one day that the role of Will really started coming to life. “I had a family situation at the time where we had two family members who required 24-hour care,” she told BuzzFeed when we caught up in a central London hotel. It was also inspired by a couple of Moyes' family members who required 24-hour care. Yes, Me Before You was inspired by a real-life news story. There are many, many spoilers about the book and movie below, so go and read the book and watch the film before continuing if you don't want it to be spoiled!ġ. Moyes talked to BuzzFeed UK about her involvement in making the film, working with director Thea Sharrock, the cast, and the problems she faced in bringing the story to the big screen. But what does appear on screen is possibly the closest anyone could ever get to bringing the book and its complex characters to life. Yes, things had to be tweaked or ignored, and minor details had to be dropped altogether. Me Before You is now out in cinemas, and it's all thanks to writer Jojo Moyes, who wrote the book and adapted it for the film. What unravels is a heart-wrenching love story where the pair change each other's lives inconceivably. The film begins by showing him before the accident and his subsequent situation, which brings carer Louisa into his life, played by Emilia Clarke ( Game of Thrones). Sam Claflin ( The Hunger Games) plays Will Traynor, a quadriplegic man who requires 24-hour assistance following a road accident. Maybe laughing with tears running down your cheeks, but still. It will also set your heart on fire, but it's not just a typical tear-jerking romance: It even has moments that will make you laugh. Me Before You will have you weeping uncontrollably.
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