From e-book to display! Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas briefly discovered love on the set of Deep Water, the 2022 movie adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1957 novel a couple of mysterious married couple.
The film — which premiered on Hulu in March 2022 — introduced the pageturner to life. The literary thriller takes place within the quiet, small city of Little Wesley, the place readers meet married couple Vic and Melinda Van Allen, who’re caught in an sad marriage. The Tender Bar star and the No Time to Die actress painting Vic and Melinda, respectively.
Their characters’ “loveless marriage is held collectively solely by a precarious association whereby, with a purpose to keep away from the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any variety of lovers so long as she doesn’t desert her household,” in keeping with the novel’s abstract. “Ultimately, Vic can now not suppress his jealousy and tries to win again his spouse by asserting himself by a tall story of homicide — one which quickly comes true.” Per the e-book description, Highsmith examined “the chilling actuality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life.”
Whereas their real-life romance didn’t play out like their characters’, Us Weekly confirmed in March 2020 that the costars had began courting amid manufacturing.
A supply instructed Us on the time that the Gone Lady star was “very supportive” of his then-girlfriend, noting, “Ana’s mates are consistently telling her how fortunate she is to have Ben and suppose he’s so charming, cool and enjoyable. They’re so pleased for her.” (The pair’s romance fizzled by January 2021, a number of months earlier than Affleck reconnected with former fiancée Jennifer Lopez that Might.)
The movie adaptation of the highly-praised novel was initially greenlit in 2013 with Adrian Lyne on board to direct, and Sam Levinson — who went on to helm HBO’s Euphoria — set to pen the script.
“A film that I’ve simply shot, Deep Water, it’s an odd story primarily based on the e-book by Patricia Highsmith, a fabulous author who additionally did The Proficient Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Prepare amongst different books,” the Deadly Attraction director instructed Forbes in April 2020. “She had a form of a bleak outlook on life. It’s attention-grabbing to me.”
Lyne continued on the time: “I’ve at all times wished to do, or I like doing motion pictures, about you or me, the place you possibly can put your ft within the sneakers of the actors, reside by them vicariously. I feel that for those who can obtain that, you’ve received the viewers, they usually gained’t have forgotten about your film by the point they’ve left the theater and headed out for dinner. If you may make the viewers acknowledge themselves within the characters ultimately, that’s an enormous a part of it. I don’t suppose there’s a method. I’m not an mental by any requirements, so I suppose my instincts are pretty good.”
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