![]() ![]() Maybe natural chemistry can result in friction on set. Cassavetes said the session didn't result in smooth sailing, but things were better after that. I'm just not getting anything from this." Rather than call in another actor, Cassavetes conducted an impromptu therapy session so Gosling and McAdams could work things out. In fact, during one scene, as recalled by Nick Cassavetes, Gosling asked him if another actress could be brought in to read with him. He thought it was a story of true love that lasts forever, and that's what he gave us with Noah and Allie in The Notebook.ĭespite the fantastic onscreen chemistry we saw in The Notebook, the leading actors did not get along very well. Sparks comments that after sixty years, they were acting the same way he and his wife, married one day, were. That story, told by a couple who had been together for more than 60 years, touched Sparks almost as much as how his wife's grandparents acted together after such a long marriage. They took photographs and had a wonderful time, and the nice couple told Sparks their story. Her grandfather even put on a sports jacket and pinned a boutonniere to his lapel. She gathered flowers she'd brought back to the hotel from the reception, a video of the wedding and a piece of wedding cake, and went to her grandparents' house. She asked him to put on his tuxedo, and she put on her wedding dress. The day after the wedding, his wife asked him to do something for her. He says his wife's grandparents were unable to come to their wedding, and that made his wife very sad. On Sparks' own website, he tells the story of his inspiration for The Notebook. ![]() He was just sitting around that summer, feeling sorry for himself, and his mother told him to "go write a book or something." He didn't write what he knew, choosing instead to go what GQ calls "a Stephen King pastiche." Sparks says the few people who have read the novel were "very kind." We'd still like to read them, Nicholas. The Passing came to be because he suffered a sports injury that ended his track-and-field career. Apparently, he never tried to publish The Passing, and The Royal Murders was rejected by publishers and agents. He says he considers those novels "an apprenticeship of sorts," and that they weren't good enough to be published. ![]() But those first two novels, The Passing and The Royal Murders, were never published, and Sparks says they never will be. He did co-write a book called Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding with his friend Billy Mills prior to The Notebook. But she stuck to her principles, at that moment and thereafter – she turned down a number of projects because they contained intimate scenes.While The Notebook was Nicholas Sparks' first published solo novel, he actually had two unpublished novels under his belt when he started writing Noah and Allie's story. The decision must have been difficult, particularly as later Simpson called The Notebook "the most romantic movie in the world". Ryan Gosling, who played Duke Calhoun in The Notebook, was Jessica Simpson's old (and entirely one-sided) crush, if you wonder. "And it would have been with Ryan Gosling, of all people," she added. However, she declined, because of one scene.Īs Jessica Simpson explained in her new memoir, Open Book, "I knew exactly what the movie was about because I had read the script but turned it down because they wouldn't budge on taking out the sex scene." For someone who had yet to debut in movies, this was a major opportunity. She was offered the role of Allie in 2002, and while she was not the only candidate, she was on the short list of those asked to audition for the film. So studio executives had high expectations from The Notebook, and wanted someone beautiful and popular for the female lead. Sparks' first adaptation, A Walk To Remember, was a major success. It was adapted from Nicholas Sparks' book of the same name by the author himself. Grey's Anatomy: 5 Times Meredith's Ego was Bigger Than the OR ![]() Her acting abilities were unproven, but some movie scripts of the time were written with someone just like her in mind, and one of these scripts was the script for The Notebook. Still, at early 2000s Simpson already had a sizeable following among teens and young adults. ![]()
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