
We have Jenny (Emma Rigby), David’s witchy ex-girlfriend who keeps popping in and out of the film to cause trouble. We have Mace (Dayo Okeniyi), David’s wisecracking best friend whose keeps popping in and out of the film for comic relief. In the meantime, we get treated to a stable of stereotypes. “He wouldn’t let me run away with my lover to Syria.” “My dad is an ogre, too,” says one tween. You can bet the target audience will eat up this father-daughter dynamic. So what’s a poor, little rich girl to do? Does she deny her father and refuse his name? Wait, I’ve heard that line before. He also charms Jade’s mother, Anne (Joely Richardson), who thinks David is just right for her daughter.īut Hugh is determined to sabotage the relationship. To try to make amends, David fixes the car of Jade’s dead brother. Golly gosh, David’s not even going to college. The hardscrabble lad is clearly not good enough for his daughter. Then Jade’s dad, Hugh (David Greenwood) shows up and objects to David’s existence. By the way, while the two make love, insipid interlude music plays loudly in the background. Jade is the one who insists, that trollop.

And how peachy keen is David? He’s so peachy keen that when they’re about to have sex he says he can wait. She gave me the variety of experiences to see what I wanted to do.Anyway, the two start to get chummy after they graduate from a high school in Georgia and before you can say “where are the condoms? they fall madly, deeply and passionately in love. When I was a kid, mum wanted me to experiment with everything, so she took me to football practice, to rugby, tennis, swimming, racing cars – and she took me to modelling castings. Today, I am wearing hobo jeans – as in, I got them from a hobo. Would you ever want to go back to modelling? I love modelling and diving into the fashion world because I am the most unfashionable man you can imagine. I have always wanted a family and children at a young age. I have never got drunk or taken drugs – I am not going to be getting wasted in a club. I do my work and then I go back home and race cars and hang out with all my mates. Is there anything of you in him? Nah, I am a very grounded, normal guy. Your character, David, has had a pretty wild past. I have had my ups and downs with the work that I do, like anyone does in any job, but I can’t imagine just coming out of college now and having to get a job for the first time and think about what to do with my life. All of the mates who I am still in contact with are just leaving college now. I f***ing hated school, so leaving at 15 was the biggest thrill for me.

Do you feel you missed out on anything? I never felt like I missed out in terms of school. The film is set around the time of the characters’ high-school graduation – you left school at 15.

I hate saying this but it’s bit like Bambi. I just thought: Gaby is so beautiful, how will people not think she would be the most popular girl in school? She has this amazing quality to her: she is so beautiful but she has this real naive awkwardness to her. Her character is a real outsider and doesn’t have many friends.
#GABRIELLA WILDE ENDLESS LOVE MOVIE#
Before I met her, I didn’t know how the movie was going to work. Gaby was cast long before me and I didn’t know her previously. You star opposite fellow British actor Gabriella Wilde in your new film, Endless Love, and you both used to model for Burberry – is there a connection? I think it’s just a coincidence. I can think of about five dates that I have been on when I have gone to see the movie and I can’t remember what I was watching because I was so excited, looking across at the person and having all those new feelings. There isn’t really much conversation that goes on but there are all those feelings there. I think it’s magical, taking someone to the movies on a first date. What would be your perfect first date? I like that whole movie and dinner thing.
