Author: Kelsie Gibson / Source: POPSUGAR Entertainment
Romantic comedies aren’t dead. While there has certainly been a drought of classics like You’ve Got Mail and Pretty Woman since the ’90s and early 2000s, within the past year, films like Crazy Rich Asians, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, and all of Netflix’s cheesy holiday films have breathed new life into rom-coms.
And now, Isn’t It Romantic is putting its own spin on the beloved genre.The film centers on Natalie (Rebel Wilson), a pessimist about love, who finds herself living out her worst nightmare: she’s trapped in her very own romantic comedy. Though the film — which also stars Liam Hemsworth, Adam DeVine, and Priyanka Chopra — pokes fun at the classic rom-com tropes (like the main character having a luxurious NYC apartment that she can’t afford or people doing fully choreographed musical numbers at random moments), diehard rom-com fans will still fall in love with the movie.
Ahead of the film’s release on Feb. 13, I had a chance to talk with Wilson, the film’s leading lady and coproducer, and she gushed about reuniting with her Pitch Perfect costar and “work husband” DeVine, having the hunky Hemsworth as her love interest, and the original ending she wanted for her character, Natalie.
POPSUGAR: One thing I really loved about the film is that even though it pays tribute to rom-coms, it also points out the clichés within the genre. What would you say is your least favorite rom-com cliché?
Rebel Wilson: Oh, there are so many. When I was younger, I would think it’s so stupid because the girl would always be so hot and in full hair and makeup all the time.
The guy doesn’t see her beauty until she gets all done up for the big date. And I’m like, “She was beautiful in the first date.” Just because she’s wearing a gown now for this event, it doesn’t mean — she was beautiful before that. So I used to hate that when the guy’s like, “Ah. Now, she’s beautiful.” But the woman was Julia Roberts, so of course she’s beautiful the whole way through the movie. So I deliberately try to look pretty bad in the first act of [Isn’t It Romantic]. No, I wouldn’t say bad. I shouldn’t. But more like really real. That’s how my hair really does look without styling. That’s just how I wake up.PS: The ending of the film also had a great twist on the rom-genre with Natalie’s discovery of self-love.
RW: Yeah, we had a lot of debate about that, because we are, in a way, we’re a rom-com, but we’re also an anti-rom-com. Did we want to subvert the ending in the film? So, we had a lot of discussions. At one point, we got in some of the top rom-com writers from around America and we debated it. But at the end of the day, we decided on the ending we have, which I think it’s a very feel-good ending. But originally, I had my character have a very sad ending.
PS: Oh, no. What did you want your character’s ending to be originally?
RB: That she goes up to Josh, played by Adam DeVine, and asks him out and he rejects her.
PS: Oh, no!
RB: Yeah. But it’s hard, and we want…
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