Believe it or not, Netflix People we meet on vacation could have been much, much sexier.
“I saw the scene as (Director Brett Haley) shot it and it was gorgeous and perfect,” author Emily Henry he said variety in an interview on Friday, January 9. “I feel a little guilty because I went and told all my friends, ‘That’s one of the sexiest sex scenes I’ve ever seen.’ Like, it really was like Titanic-level for me. It was so good, raw and tender.”
People we meet on vacation, co-star Emily Bader i Tom Blyth as Poppy Wright and Alex Nilson, is an adaptation of Henry’s 2021 romance novel of the same name. Like the book, the characters stick together after traveling together for Alex’s brother’s destination wedding.
“When Brett started thinking about cutting it, it was because they had started doing test screenings and people, especially people who weren’t familiar with the books, felt like it was a hard right turn in the movie,” Henry, 34, said on the way out of the reconfigured spicy scene. “Brett brought this to me for the first time and asked me, ‘How important is it to you and your readers to see the sex scene?’ I said, “I think it’s kind of important, in a way, because it’s something that we’re destigmatizing, but ultimately, my view would be that if it doesn’t fit the movie, then it doesn’t work.”
Emily Henry’s first book-to-film adaptation, People We Meet on Vacation, is officially here, and it doesn’t disappoint. The film, which premiered on Netflix on Friday, January 9, is based on Henry’s 2021 novel and follows the spontaneous and free-spirited Poppy (Emily Bader) and the reserved and tight-lipped Alex (Tom Blyth) after they connect on a trip home to (…)
Haley, 42, said more variety that develops Poppy and Alex’s “friendship chemistry”. it was more important than showing his romantic spark.
“I wanted to do it right with Emily’s book, so we shot a scene that was literally, exactly what’s in the book, and the readers know what it means,” Haley explained. “It just didn’t mesh with the film. It just didn’t work tonally, so it was about finding the balance.”
While People we meet on vacation wasn’t overtly spicy, that doesn’t mean adaptations of Henry’s other books will follow suit. (Henry novels Read on the beach, fun story, happy place i Book lovers to have everything has been chosen for the cinema.)
Emily Bader and Tom Blyth in ‘People We Meet on Vacation’.
Michele K. Short film/Netflix“I think it’s going to be something that varies from adaptation to adaptation,” Henry teased on Friday. “I think that the tone of the different projects will not necessarily be the same People we meet on vacationjust as I don’t think the books are exactly the same tone. I think we’re going to have some sexier sex scenes, and I think we’re going to have some that are more of a classic, traditional fade-to-black rom-com situation.”
None of the other Henry adaptations have yet been cast, and the author does not have a “short list” for her potential leads.
“I don’t envision an actor when I’m writing, but after there’s a book that starts to be adapted, I do start thinking about it,” Henry said. explained exclusively Us Weekly earlier this week, specifically addressing fan theories that Joe Keery or Dylan O’Brien could star Miles in Funny Story “These actors are definitely on my Miles mental list. I think they would both make total sense. I could definitely see it and I think they’d be amazing.”
People we meet on vacation it’s now streaming on Netflix.