Kunal Nayyar: What's fun about these movies is there's nowhere to hide. Kunal, you were a dream to work with, as well. It was really about the story and bringing that to life. This, like Kunal said, was truly about these characters, and we didn't have smoke and mirrors. Each project I do enhances my love of getting to help tell a story. I was a kid who was excited for the book fair and would disappear into books. I think that's what actors do for a living, we read something, and it's a story, and we help bring it to life. Lucy Hale: I don't know if it changed it, but it definitely enhanced it. Lucy, Did playing Amelia change your perspective on the power of storytelling and the written word? To really sit in a quiet setting and space and explore these characters was a real dream, and I got to work with incredible actors. That being said, also just an opportunity to play complex characters in moves, currently we don't oftentimes get that opportunity because movies are big-scale, and there are so many characters, and there's action and all this stuff going on. And we've also experienced what it means to get over grief - if we ever get over grief completely - but to move on after grief. because, though I don't know what it feels like to lose a partner like that, all of us have experienced loss in our lives. Kunal Nayyar: I don't think I connected with A.J. Kunal, having written a book yourself, what was the importance of being part of this movie for you? Did you feel like you connected with AJ? I love that the foundation of the movie is about stories and storytelling, and it all takes place in a bookstore.
I'm very traditional in that I love going into a bookstore and picking up books. I play a book sales rep, and I think Kunal and I both agree that actual bookstores and holding books, it's almost a thing of the past. I saw a lot of myself in Amelia, and I think that she was this newfound hope and light in A.J.'s life after grief and loss. I read the book after I read the script because I got immediately emotionally attached to the story and the characters. It was fun reading the script and picturing him in the role. I got the script, and Kunal was already attached to play A.J. To play a character that went from dark to light, to play the juxtaposition between both of those emotions in one movie was a real joy, and I really connected. I sort of fell in love with the book after.
When I started talking about the book, I realized that my brother was a huge fan a lot of people in India were huge fans because A.J. I read the script, and then I read the book and instantly fell in love with it. Kunal Nayyar: The script came across our desks first. Screen Rant: At what point did you each read the novel? What were your impressions of your characters?
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