Quotes from Nicholas Galitzine and Anne Hathaway About the Age Difference in The Idea of ​​You.

For Nicholas Galitzine And Anne Hathaway‘s characters in Your ideaAge is only a number.

The film, which will be released on Amazon Prime on May 2nd, follows 40-year-old Solène (Hathaway) as she meets 24-year-old boy band member Hayes (Galitzine) and the pair spark an unexpected romance.

Fans couldn’t help but make comparisons between them Harry Styles And Olivia Wilde‘s previous romance from May to December when the was revealed Your idea would be adapted to the big screen. The couple, who dated from January 2021 to November 2022, had a 10-year age difference.

However, Hathaway set the record straight during an interview in March Extratold the outlet, “No, just no” about the speculation that Styles and Wilde inspired the film, which is based on the 2017 novel of the same name Robin Lee.

Instead, Hathaway noted that the film is about “what it takes to recover from a broken heart.” She added that Solène started the relationship with Hayes “thinking it would just be a bit of fun” until “she realizes there’s more to it than that, and if she actually wants to take part in it, she has to have some others.” Giving up things.”

Scroll down to find out everything Galitzine and Hathaway said about their characters’ age gap romance:

Something new

“I’m looking forward to it Your idea“You know, this is also about portraying something that we’re not really used to seeing on screen, which is an age-related love between a young man and an older woman,” Galitzine said Entertainment tonight March. “I’m really excited that it’s coming out and Anne is such an incredible actress… I’m really excited for people to see it!”

Age Gap Love is “very exciting”

“The idea that this film promotes female pleasure as a protagonist of this nature I find really interesting and unique and obviously shows an age gap love that we don’t normally see on screen between a younger man and an older woman,” he told Hits Radio in March. “It was very exciting in that respect too.”

Grow up at any age

During the SXSW Film & TV Festival in March, Hathaway discussed showing the couple’s age-gap romance on screen.

“For some reason we talk about coming-of-age stories as something that happens to you in the earliest phase of your life, and I don’t know about you, but I feel like I’m continuing to blossom,” she said. “I don’t want to be pigeonholed and put in a box about what kind of films I have to do because of my age, gender and because I won an Oscar. I want to have fun, damn it. It speaks to me.”

40 looks different for everyone

“It’s kind of fun to be in a movie where we talk about it, where we don’t dance around it, but actually express their point of view on it,” Hathaway said of the age difference during an April 29 appearance Today. “It’s funny. It’s okay if 40 is old, it’s okay if 40 isn’t old, it’s okay whatever it is because it’s personal. For Solène, her point of view is, you know “That she became a mother at a very young age and really wanted to have a career, so she doesn’t fully identify with her age.”

She continued, “[The character] It seems to me like maybe she’s been doing things a little wrong, and for her, 40 means it’s a time of self-discovery for her. And that’s what the film says… how wonderful that she finds someone who makes her feel so supported, seen, embraced and valued.”