Adams’ Hugh Dancy: Unusual People Date Aspergers
Written by Staff on July 13th, 2009 in Asperger's Syndrome, Celebrities.
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Hugh Dancy stars in Adam, one of the few films to be picked for the Sundance Film Festival this year, about a man with Asperger’s Syndrome that hits theatres July 29.
New York magazine recently interviewed Dancy, where he spoke about his thoughts on the film and the character he portrayed.
A few highlights from the interview:
Adam and his neighbor, Beth [played by Rose Byrne], fall in love. I hope you won’t be offended if I say that I spent most of the movie wondering what the heck she was doing with him.
I think, realistically, it would take a fairly unusual person to date someone with Asperger’s.
And I hope you won’t think I’m crass if I add that it would’ve been even harder to buy this love story if Adam had been played by someone unattractive.
That’s probably true.
How much did you study Asperger’s?
I had to do detailed and specific work about this guy so he didn’t end up being a series of quirks. When I initially read that first bit of script, I thought, Jesus, I hope this isn’t one of those scripts where it turns out he’s just a little off, but he’s kind of wonderful and is going to teach us how to be better and more simple people. Because I kind of hate that.
Read the rest of the interview at nymag.com.
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July 31st, 2009 at 11:22 am
Without knowing what movie I was going to see last night – Saw it and loved it! ‘Adam’ being an attractive fellow certainly made it more plausible. * I found myself thinking at one point that he and Patrick Dempsey have some physical similarities. Thinking further about it, Dempsey played the mentally challenged brother in ‘Once and Again’ (a series I rather enjoyed) before doing Grays Anatomy.
* Certainly not following the pack in movie plots, I really enjoyed the tugs at my heart and the chuckles of this movie and was somewhat saddened when it seemed to end way too soon. Well Done, Max!!! – Is there a sequel in the works?