Like, 'Are people going to think this is just Tom Cruise playing this role?' He was the real find.' The Chicago native had the necessary likability to play a guy cheating on his fiancée with her best friend. 'You feel what he's going through,' explained Greenfield. 'And so that was one of the things that we were, I guess, concerned about. The one issue Greenfield remembered was his close resemblance to another film actor you may have heard of. 'He's literally a Tom Cruise lookalike,' noted the director. 'We were like, 'That's our Dex,'' recalled Swank. Colin Egglesfield proved to be the wildcard. They wanted to cast someone 'fresh' to play Darcy's fiancé and Rachel's eventual love interest, says Smith, 'because we couldn't think of anyone that lived up to Emily's standards of Dex, the way she describes him in the book, as this JFK, Jr., perfect guy.' And they were blown away when they saw the All My Children alum's audition tape. 'But at the end of the day, I recognized that we needed more tension in the third act.'Ĥ. 'I remember kind of fighting back against that and saying, 'No, I believe in female and male friendships,'' said Giffin. Her one slight quibble: In the book, straitlaced Rachel and her pal Ethan were entirely platonic whereas in the film he professes his love. The producers were actually here filming The Blind Side in Atlanta right around the time that they bought Something Borrowed and they called and said, 'Would you like to have dinner?' And we just really hit it off and became friends.' She was fine with whatever changes needed to occur to translate the story on film 'as long as we remain true to the characters,' she continued.

'But it was just the opposite experience for me. 'I'd been sort of warned by other authors that it can be a nightmare process: 'You won't be consulted,' or 'You won't like what they do,'' she told E!. The project surpassed all of Giffin's expectations. It's a really neat thing to be able to take something from the book, all the way to the screen.

We just fell in love with it and went after the rights. One of producer Molly Smith's six sisters was the one to give her Emily Giffin's 2004 novel about the messiest of love triangles, 'and I loved it,' Smith told Collider of reading the best-seller and its 2005 follow-up, Something Blue. So when she and Hilary Swank 'formed our company and were building a slate of projects, I told her about the books and gave them to her.

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