Q. What attracted you to the role of Summer in this film. Do you find in her something of yourself?
I think the energy and spirit of Summer is what attracted me to the role. She’s a lot of fun. She’s curious and wants to experiment with life. She’s bold. She’s very bold. I’m English and a bit more polite. She’s direct, very direct. We are very different. I’m an English born actress. She’s an uptown Manhattan journalist. So, we are very different.

Q. What was the challenge to play this part?
It was not tremendously challenging where I had to go to an emotional place or a dark serious drama. It was fun and light. It was kind of a delicious experience. Very sweet.

Q. What was the atmosphere like on the set?
The spirit on the set was fun. A lot of credit goes to the director Adam Brooks. He wanted the atmosphere to be happy and the mood on the set all comes from the director. He wanted to keep it light and fun and sweet.

Q. Describe the relationship between Summer and Will.
She meets him first when she’s a graduate student. He’s from the Midwest, real innocent, naïve and wide-eyed. He’s never been to a big city. He’s never met a woman like Summer before. She is very sophisticated and up-town, cosmopolitan, and she calls him a ‘boy-man.’ Later in the film when she meets him, he’s grown up, more sophisticated and mature and she calls him a ‘man-man.’ She’s attracted to him. She falls in love with him. She really does. And then she has to choose between telling the truth in her profession as a journalist about a politician, or to cover up the story, and as a journalist she has to choose between the two. The relationship is very passionate. I think they are in love. He grows up and then becomes her equal.

Q. The story is about second chances. Do you have a second chance life experience?
Nothing major so far, like divorce and children, but I feel that I’ve had a lot of extra chances. For me, I feel that every new job is a new chance.

Q. Do you enjoy working in comedies?
I did one more comedy that is coming out in the fall and another film that is already out. So far I’ve done three comedies.

Q. Is it easy for you to speak with an American accent?
I’ve played so many American roles lately, in fact now I’m a bit scared that I have an upcoming British role! It will be strange.

Q. Do you enjoy the nineties music soundtrack?
I loved the nineties music, especially Nirvana.

Q. How is it to work with Ryan Reynolds?
He’s sweet. Handsome and kind. He’s a different type of leading man.

Q. Do you enjoy now living in New York?
I love the international feeling here. Different foods. Different people. There’s everything here. Museums, theatre, there’s so much to do I feel guilty about not doing too many things.

Q. What do you miss about living in London.
I miss London very much. The conversations, the little things like the little shops there. It’s a different way of interacting with people there. It’s fast here, and it’s a little more mellow back in London.

Q. What do you look for in a role?
Complexity. To play contradictions in a person. Complex roles.

Q. What did you see in this movie to choose this role?
It’s a different kid of story. It’s about real life complexities of having a kid, then being divorced, and then getting a second chance at love. It also reminds me of the old films from the fifties, where you grab a duvet and get a box of chocolates to curl up with and watch the film.

Q. How they handled the topic of divorce and its impact on a family in the film is modern. How do you feel about this?
The child of divorce seems well adjusted in this film. Sometimes people analyze too much. The thing about life is that the world is changing and there are some incredible things about it and there are some terrible things about it. I think that we should look that the good outweighs the bad.

Q. How about relationships?
It’s very human to adjust to the people you are in relation with. Then you perhaps find yourself. Sometimes you feel open when you find the right person, you can find your true self.


Q. How about politics. The Clinton campaign was big in the nineties, and currently there is another Clinton campaign. What do you think about the issues of a woman in politics, like the American Presidency or like a Margaret Thatcher?
Gender differences in England or America is a big topic.

Q. In politics is there a place for truth?
That is what the character says that is played by Kevin Kline… that you must go intensely after the truth.

Q. Is it difficult for you to find good female roles?
This film has three. I think all the roles for the women have great qualities. I was happy to play the role of Summer.