How Dwyane Wade Inspired Gabrielle Union to Adapt ‘The Idea of You’

Gabrielle Union discovered that her age-gap romance with her spouse, Dwyane Wade, influenced her to adapt The Plan of You.

“Being encouraged by Robinne [Lee]‘s reserve and figuring out that Solène’s tale was a pretty particular tale,” Union, 51, said all through a article-screening Q&A on Sunday, April 28. “I was like ‘I want in.’ I stay this! I’ve acquired a younger man with a massive daily life.”

The Strategy of You centers around 40-calendar year-previous Solène (Anne Hathaway), who falls in love with 24-calendar year-outdated musician Hayes (Nicholas Galitzine) after getting her teenage daughter, Izzy (Ella Rubin), to see the team August Moon conduct at Coachella.

For Union, a scene the place Solène holidays with a youthful group reminded her of her possess working experience touring with Wade, 42. (Union and Wade, who exchanged vows in August 2014, have an nearly 10-calendar year age gap.)

“She arrives with her issues for the reason that she’s nervous about sunlight defense and all the types,” Union explained. “I like it for the reason that it reminds me of when I vacation with some of my husband’s pals. It is like, ‘Oh, so no one’s heard of Jefferson Plane?’”

When it was revealed that The Thought of You would be tailored on to the large monitor, lovers drew comparisons involving the principal people and Harry Kinds and Olivia Wilde’s former romance. (The pair, who have been joined from January 2021 to November 2022, experienced a 10-year difference.)

Nonetheless, Hathaway, 41, slammed the speculation that Kinds, 30, and Wilde, 40, influenced the movie. “No, just no,” she said throughout an interview with Further in March.

Throughout the SXSW Movie & Television competition in March, Hathaway specific showcasing the pair’s age gap romance in the film, which is based mostly on the 2017 novel of the exact name by Lee.

“For some cause, we talk about coming-of-age tales as getting a thing that comes about to you in the earliest aspect of your existence, and I really don’t know about you, but I experience like I retain blooming,” she mentioned. “I never want to be pigeonholed and never want to be put in a box of what type of movies I have to be creating simply because of my age, gender and because I received an Oscar. I want to have enjoyment, dammit. It speaks to me.”

The Concept of You premieres Thursday, Might 2 on Key Movie.