![]() ![]() PETTYFER: I think your emotion changes from person to person. I think it’s great.ĭo you still try to find that same emotion? Your life is consumed by them, and everything you want to do revolves around them. When you fall in love for the first time, you’re naive to every feeling that you’re feeling, and you’re almost obsessed with or addicted to that person. My heart was ripped out of my chest, but I think that happens to everyone. PETTYFER: I think that first love defines you and your relationships, for the rest of your life. What do you remember about your first love? As a young actor, that’s amazing to walk away and go, “I would never have looked at something like that before.” Now, hopefully as I go on in my career, I can do the same, and really look at that kind of stuff. In the original scene, which I don’t think made it into the movie, I go to sit down in that seat and he goes, “Don’t sit there.” That was something that he came up with. He’s still in mourning.” And I wouldn’t ever think of that. I want an empty seat there because my character would still set the table. There was a scene where we all sit down for dinner and he gives the telescope to Gabriella and he says, “I want the placemat set for my lost child. The guy picks up things that I don’t even notice. To work with him and see his work ethic, and the way he approaches a scene, is mind-blowing to me. And to work with Bruce Greenwood, and even Robert Patrick, is an incredible experience for someone like me, who is just starting out and hopefully will have longevity. People ask me, “Why do you love making films?,” and I always say, “Because I love film.” I hope that I can call myself a movie buff. What was it like to work with Bruce Greenwood? Did you find him intimidating, at all, especially with his character being such a mean guy? You start to kiss Gabriella, and then you look to your right and there’s a big burly man standing there with a light over you going, “Just move to your right a little bit.” And you go, “Okay, this is not so romantic.” The nerves go away very fast. It’s all quiet, and you take off your robe. You think these things are romantic and sensual. PETTYFER: It’s so awkward! We had a scene where we make love for the first time, and she’s very awkward because she’s never done it. How was it to do the kissing scenes together? It’s very hit-and-miss with that kind of stuff. Shana set the atmosphere and the environment for us to become close and to become friends. There was a connection that we could build off of there. ![]() She was actually a part of this movie before I was. What was it like working with Gabriella Wilde? That’s why I wanted to be a part of this. And Shana was great, guiding me with all of that. And it’s a very scary thing for anyone to act like a child and have those innate feelings that come to you. To do this film, you had to go back and become a child again, to feel all of those feelings for the first time. I think when you’re my age, you want to have an aura of being a man. My favorite romantic comedies are Love, Actually and Bridget Jones. It’s about pure love, and the consequences that come with that, with being a young man and a young woman. This movie doesn’t touch on that subject. A lot of movies, like Love Story, which is one of my favorite love films of all time, with Ali McGraw and Ryan O’Neill, touch on the basis of what they have to do when they fall in love, and then get married and have children. Collider: How did you strike the right balance in tone for a romantic film, and what are some of your favorite romantic films or romantic comedies?ĪLEX PETTYFER: What I love about this movie is that it’s about two young people falling in love for the first time, and that naivete that they have, which was very inspiring for me to do the movie.
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