Simone Ashley “all the time needed” to make a rom-com.
The 29-year-old actress – who’s greatest identified for starring in Netflix interval drama ‘Bridgerton’ – admitted that she did not must assume a lot about taking up the function of Pia within the new rom-com ‘Image This’ as a result of she is already an enormous fan of the style.
She advised Collider: “I’m all the time actually drawn to characters like Pia, who’re tremendous passionate, fiery, and bold, and it simply gave her such a drive all through the story to go together with that. And I liked that she overcame her frustration with the scenario in her life by happening a journey of self-discovery and opening up her coronary heart. I used to be actually drawn to the comedy within the script. I used to be laughing out loud after I was studying it. And I liked that the main target was round household, as properly. I grew up watching rom-coms, so I all the time needed to be a part of that world in that style. So, as quickly as I learn it, it was a no brainer for me.
The previous ‘Intercourse Training’ star added that with ‘Image This’ – which follows a struggling photographer who’s advised she’s going to discover real love and profession success throughout the subsequent 5 dates – taught her the “greatest lesson” in bringing the story of a romantic comedy to life on display.
She mentioned: “Completely. I completely liked it. Each challenge I do will all the time have a spot in my coronary heart. I had such fond reminiscences doing this challenge, collaborating on it, creating it, taking pictures it, and now selling it. For me, the most important lesson, particularly throughout a rom-com the place we actually leaned into the comedy, was to let it’s and permit the comedy to simply sit there and never override it, or really feel like we have now to do an excessive amount of or tamper with that an excessive amount of. There was lots of belief there, and trusting the simplicity of all the things.”
