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A successful woman in her 40s with a toyboy pop star? Great on screen in The Idea of You, scary in reality | Bidisha Mamata
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 15:00
It’s far less bother to stream romcoms, like the latest Anne Hathaway film, into my living room than play them out in real life
Anyone for a toyboy? The hit of the season has been The Idea of You , the film adaptation of Robinne Lee ’s bestseller in which a woman in her 40s (played by Anne Hathaway) falls mutually in something-or-other with a pop idol in his 20s (played by Nicholas Galitzine).
On the one hand, I bristle at the idea that being fortysomething is particularly old. Or that a rich, beautiful, successful, intelligent woman is making some sort of wild transgression in having a sexy love affair with an available male character who is equally blessed in every way, but for the fact that he’s younger.
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