From the book to the screen! Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas briefly found love on the set of deep watersthe 2022 film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1957 novel about a mysterious married couple.

The film — which premiered on Hulu in March 2022 — brought the pageturner to life. The literary thriller is set in the quiet little town of Little Wesley, where readers meet married couple Vic and Melinda Van Allen, who are stuck in an unhappy marriage. the Tender bar star and the no time to die the actress play Vic and Melinda respectively.

“Their characters’ loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the mess of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she doesn’t give up. his family”, according to the summary of the novel. . “Eventually, Vic can’t suppress his jealousy any longer and tries to win his wife back by asserting himself through a big murder story – a story that soon comes true.” According to the book’s description, Highsmith examined “the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life.”

Although their actual romance didn’t turn out like their characters’, We Weekly confirmed in March 2020 that the costars began dating midway through production.

A source said We at the time when the missing girl The star was “very supportive” of his then-girlfriend, noting: “Ana’s friends constantly tell her how lucky she is to have Ben and think he’s so charming, cool and fun. They are so happy for her.(The couple’s romance fell apart in January 2021, months before Affleck reconnected with the former fiancée Jennifer Lopez this can.)

The film adaptation of the much-loved novel was originally greenlit in 2013 with Adrian Lynne on board to lead, and Sam Levinson – who later ran HBO Euphoria – defined to write the script.

“A film that I have just shot, deep watersit’s a strange story based on the book by Patricia Highsmith, a wonderful writer who also made The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a train among other books, Fatal attraction director says Forbes in April 2020. “She had kind of a gloomy outlook on life. It’s interesting to me.

Lyne continued at the time, “I’ve always wanted to do, or like to do movies, about you or me, where you can put yourself in the actors’ shoes, experience them vicariously. I think if you can pull that off, you’ve got the audience, and they won’t have forgotten your movie by the time they leave the theater and head to dinner. If you can get the audience to relate to the characters in some way, that’s a big part of that. I don’t think there is a formula. I’m not an intellectual by any standard, so I guess my instincts are pretty good.

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