What if

[my_elementor_php_output]

Wallace (Daniel Radcliffe) is a medical school dropout who‘s been repeatedly burned by bad relationships. While everyone around him seems to be finding the perfect partner, including his friend Allan (Adam Driver) in girlfriend Nicole (Mackenzie Davis), Wallace decides to put his on hold. It is then that he meets Chantry (), an animator who lives with her longtime boyfriend Ben (Rafe Spall).

The beach is the setting for one of the funniest set pieces in the film, a midnight skinny dipping romp for Wallace, Chantry, Allan and Nicole. Davis, who plays Nicole, says the production had many fun and memorable moments but if she had to single out one, it would be that scene.

The beach is the setting for one of the funniest set pieces in the film, a midnight skinny dipping romp for Wallace, Chantry, Allan and Nicole. Davis, who plays Nicole, says the production had many fun and memorable moments but if she had to single out one, it would be that scene.

When Screenwriter Elan Mastai saw the production of Toothpaste and Cigars‘ at the Fringe Festival in Toronto, he felt inspired to write a script based on the play. “The difference between adapting a is that with a novel you‘re always paring down but with a play/short story you get to add. It was that way with this script. There was a lot of room for me as a writer to add my own ideas. I took the play, expanded it and added characters.

After being chosen for the coveted , the screenplay was picked up by David Gross and Jesse Shapira at No Trace Camping. They gave it to director , who loved it upon first read and jumped on board immediately. Although Dowse had never done a romantic comedy before, he‘s always appreciated the genre and jumped at the chance to shift the paradigm.

Daniel Radcliffe relates to the character of Wallace as well as the wit and heart of the story. “One of the reasons I was so keen to make this film is in a part of the script Wallace corrects Chantry on her pronunciation of a word. At that point I knew I liked this guy,” says Radcliffe of his character.

Zoe Kazan, a successful screenwriter in her own right, was immediately attracted to the comedy and sentiment in Mastai‘s script. Mackenzie Davis plays Allan‘s passionate girlfriend, Nicole. Davis says the atmosphere on set was so relaxed and convivial that it was a bit like summer camp where the cast got to shoot scenes that were party scenes or skinny dipping at the beach scenes that were for the movie, but were also really fun and memorable moments.

The idea of using animation in started for a practical reason – because there is so much dialogue in the story, Mastai also wanted to bring something visually distinctive to the movie. Additionally, because of Chantry‘s romantic circumstances, there were emotions she couldn‘t express aloud. “There were things in the film that Chantry couldn‘t say, not because they‘re secrets but because she‘s not to admit them, even to herself“,says Mastai. ―”Writing the animated scenes allowed me to showcase her unexpressed inner thoughts in a visually arresting and metaphoric way.

The production team enlisted the talents of production designer Ethan Tobman to create the environments where the characters would live. The three main interiors include Wallace/Ellie‘s house, Chantry/Ben‘s apartment and Allan‘s house. The design concept around these three sets was to create a triumvirate of the three stages of the character’s maturation.

The setting for much of the film is Toronto. Although it‘s not a place traditionally thought of as a romantic location, Dowse found ways to make the city look as nice and beautiful as possible. “It was kind of a challenge to make Toronto romantic,” he says. “It‘s normally been quite a gray, sort of austere city, and, like, David Cronenberg and Atom Egoyan‘s works, very, sort of, cold. But, the thing about Toronto is that there‘s a ton of water around it, and that‘s sort of something we try to key into is, try to find the romance by the beaches, and in the east end of the city, and, and try to capture it that way, to give it its due as a modern cosmopolitan city.”

Although most of the film was shot in Toronto, the company did go over to Dublin for four days at the end of the shoot, for the scenes when Ben is working in Ireland.

Share this article: What if

Facebook
LinkedIn
WhatsApp
Pinterest
Twitter
Email

MORE TOPICS

Identity Thief

Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy pair up to lead the cast of Identity Thief, an all-star comedy in which a regular guy is forced to extreme measures to clear his name. With everything to lose after his identity is stolen, he’ll find out how crazed you can get trying to settle a bad credit score.

The Muppets

The Muppets is a comedy film from Walt Disney Pictures directed by James Bobin. The script was written by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller, the writer-director team behind the 2008 film Forgetting Sarah Marshall. James Bobin is directing the film and Bret McKenzie has written the film’s songs. It is the seventh theatrically released feature film to star The Muppets.

Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts has been named one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People in the World” eleven times, tied with Halle Berry.

The Counselor

Legendary filmmaker Ridley Scott and Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy have joined forces in the motion picture thriller The Counselor, starring Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem, and Brad Pitt.

Deliver Us From Evil

Sergeant Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana) of the NYPD has seen his share of darkness on the mean streets of the South Bronx. Sarchie has witnessed behavior on the outer edges of inhumanity, and it has begun to darken his soul, to the point of affecting his relationship with his wife, Jen (Olivia Munn), and their young daughter.