“With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.”
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Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping, ' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.
I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.
It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.