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"Adaptations are ever a tricky happening due to the fact that books are truthful overmuch much cerebral, and you're speechmaking the character's thoughts, and it's hard to convey character's thoughts successful a film, truthful there's going to beryllium changes," she added. "It's America — Hollywood's going to bash what they're going to do, and they're going to propulsion a blessed ending connected everything. I don't cognize why. You anticipation they'll support to what you've written due to the fact that it meant thing to you, but you besides person to deliberation astir the container bureau and viewers and what their assemblage is going to privation to see. Even though there's evidently a immense overlap betwixt readers and movie viewers, I deliberation erstwhile you are gearing thing towards a movie audience, it's a somewhat antithetic fanbase, and possibly American viewers are not acceptable for [a bittersweet ending]."

And then, erstwhile asked if her book's characters could've had a blessed ending too, she said, "I mean, the movie ending could person happened successful the publication too, I suppose, years down the line. But that's not the communicative I wanted to tell. I wanted to marque a constituent astir how, arsenic women, we enactment others' happiness earlier our own. She chose her girl earlier Hayes, and she was besides precise alert that she was disappointing her best friend, Lulit, her concern spouse and the co-owner of her gallery, which was suffering from the Hayes relationship. She had to enactment those different things first. It would've been beauteous if she could person balanced each three, but astatine that constituent successful time, she couldn't."