'My whole life I’ve had people trying to box me based on my exterior. There are people that will deny me my Blackness, and there are people that just need to know what ‘side’ you’re on, or some nonsense.' - missnemmanuel
The entire show was shot in London, which meant that Emmanuel was able to be close to her mother, who lives in her hometown of Essex, attend her sister’s wedding, and. Though the lead characters are American, the distinct British charm that defined Richard Curtis’ original still runs through this new adaptation.
Nathalie’s character Maya is a tricky one, though. There’s a frustratingly familiar narrative around a young, classically beautiful woman having an affair with her older, arrogant boss, and though that’s essentially where we pick up with Maya in, it’s not the direction that the series takes. “I really struggled with that side of her story,” she admits.
Okay, she thinks they’re in love. She’s in love with this person, and he’s telling her all of these promises. I can relate to that naivety, and just being so caught up in your emotions. I had to connect with that side of it to settle that within myself, and I think Maya is a character whoto be good. She wants to do the right thing, but she doesn’t always know what the right thing is to do.”isn’t full of the sex talk and comic intimacy that you’d expect. “We know how sex goes; we’ve seen it enough times.
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