“Love, Rosie” is a romantic comedy, that was adapted to the big screen by the book with the same name.
Let’s find out more about the movie!
- Love, Rosie is a 2014 romantic comedy-drama film.
- It was directed by Christian Ditter.
- The screenplay was written by Juliette Towhidi.
- It was based on the 2004 novel Where Rainbows End by Irish author Cecelia Ahern.
- The film stars Lily Collins and Sam Claflin as Rosie and Alex.
- Christian Cooke, Tamsin Egerton, Suki Waterhouse, Jamie Beamish and Jaime Winstone are playing supporting roles.
- Filming began in May 2013 in Toronto.
- It then moved to Dublin and Howth.
- The scene where Rosie and Alex are lying on Rosie’s bed with baby Katie was not originally planned. The baby actress was asleep on the set and Lily Collins and Sam Claflin were on the bed with her, waiting while she rested. Director Christian Ditter decided to improvise and put it into the movie.
- Unlike the novel, the film is set over 12 years instead of 45 years
- Based on a book by Cecelia Ahern originally called ‘Rosie Dunne’ in the U.S. or ‘Where Rainbows End’ in Ireland where the author is from.
- Many of the photos in Rosie’s bedroom in her parents’ house are Lily Collins’s own photos of herself and her friends.
- Director Christian Ditter allowed Lily Collins and Sam Claflin to improvise the scene where Rosie and Alex walk the streets of Boston after their night out.
- Both actors said that this was their favorite moment of the shoot.
- Sam Claflin was director Christian Ditter’s first choice for the role of Alex.
- Sam Claflin called the hair of eighteen year old Alex his Justin Bieber haircut.
- Sam Claflin said that he was up for doing an Irish accent for the film, but nobody would let him when the decision was made to set the film in England.
- The decision to set the film in England, even though the novel it’s based on is set in Ireland, and filming of the England scenes took place in Ireland (in and around Dublin), was made because so many of the actors were English.
- Cecelia Ahern had a cameo but was cut out from the film.
- This was due to the fact that director, Christian Ditter noticed people whispering about whether or not it was Ahern in the background during the film’s screening. He felt that her cameo was a distraction to Rosie’s dialogue and the importance of the scene.
- Sam Claflin both played in movies which are based on Snow White.
- Both actors had auditioned for a part in each other’s film: Lily Collins for Snow White in Snow White and the Huntsman, Sam Claflin for the prince in Mirror Mirror.
- Sam Claflin and Lily Collins have both played major parts in widely popular books that were adapted to movies. Claflin played Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 as well as Will Traynor in Me Before You and Collins played Clary Fray in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.
- This is Lara McDonnell’s debut.
- Sam Claflin’s scenes were filmed during the first weeks of production.
- When he left halfway through the shoot to make The Riot Club(2014), Lily Collins remained and filmed the scenes of Rosie being pregnant and at home in England without Alex. She said that when Sam Claflin left, she really felt like Alex had left Rosie
- When Rosie leaves her dad at the hotel, the road sign says ‘roadworks, expect delays’. This forshadows the complications in Rosie’s life in the rest of the film.
- n the book, Katie Dunne is not Greg’s daughter, but rather Brian’s (who wasn’t mentioned in the movie).
- In the film, Waterhouse plays model Bethany, who comes between the title character and the love of her life, Alex, portrayed by Sam Claflin – and she admits she based her role on the girl who stole her boyfriend when she was a teenager
- Once a private residence dating back the Edwardian era, Tara Hall is now a dreamy boutique guesthouse overlooking the sea, Howth Harbour and Ireland’s Eye. This is the real Rosie’s hotel.
