Her aim, the director said, was to underline some important priorities: adventure and love. It was never in my mind to pass judgment, though.”
It is so easy in modern life to lose sight of how we feel about things. It is a bit like yoga or a therapy session. “Crying in the cinema can be quite a release anyway, especially if there are a couple of laughs as well. “I wanted to get across how rare it is that we allow someone into our lives and trust them to show us a different way to exist,” said Sharrock, who watched the 1970 hit Love Story in preparation for filming. The director, known in theatre for directing Daniel Radcliffe in Peter Shaffer’s Equus, and Benedict Cumberbatch in an award-winning revival of Terence Rattigan’s After the Dance, has kept Moyes’s romance as streamlined as possible, focusing on its serious central issue: what might make life worth living if you are a wheelchair user? “I wanted to stick to the universal theme of the simple and yet wonderful way these people fall in love, while creating a space for people to think about what matters,” said Sharrock, adding that she sees the subjects of life-altering disability and the morality of euthanasia as difficult rather than “dark”. At its emotional core are Traynor, a quadriplegic former jet-setting banker, and his hapless carer, Lou, who is played by Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke. True to the novel, which has so far sold six million copies, it tells an unconventional love story. It has a screenplay by Moyes and is out on 3 June in a bid to become the blockbusting weepie of the summer. Her big-budget film version of the book stars Sam Claflin (best known for his role as Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games) as Traynor.
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