Lily James says her ‘What’s Fancy Got to Achieve With It?’ character is a realistic “modern young woman” who is “going on dates” and “sleeping around”.
The 33-year-weak actress stars in the modern romantic comedy as dating app addict Zoe and found that she may relate to her alter ego’s challenge of mixing career ambitions with the search for romance, with many mistakes along the way.
Speaking to HeyUGuys.com, Lily said of her character: “I really like that she’s a young woman figuring it out. She’s going on dates, she’s sleeping around. She’s really passionate about what she does, really ambitious.
“She’s figuring out how to manage all of that in her lifestyles and to me it felt like a modern conundrum and something myself and my chums all face so I think she really feels like a modern young woman.”
The film follows documentary maker Zoe as she movies her childhood buddy and neighbour Kaz’s (Shazad Latif) skedaddle from London to Pakistan as he marries a stranger. Zoe begins to wonder if she may learn something from a totally different way of finding love.
Lily has praised the film – which also stars Dame Emma Thompson and Shabana Azmi – for its “unjudgemental” peek of romance.
The ‘Pam and Tommy’ actress explained: “I think the film really celebrates love but also appears to be like to be at it in a really unjudgemental way to inspect at what love can mean for every totally different individual across international locations, cultures, religion, everything.
“It be a deeply romantic film at the core of it.”
