Adam

Love Interest Breaks Type, Uses Brain

AT first the British actor Hugh Dancy seemed to be entirely wrong to play the title character in “Adam,” said Max Mayer, the film’s writer and director. The trouble was that Mr. Dancy, 34, seemed too charming, too intuitive, too easy in himself — just right for a movie like “Ella Enchanted” (he played Prince Charmont) but not so perfect for a character who was not so perfect.
But Mr. Dancy managed to convince Mr. Mayer in a long and intense meeting that he was right for Adam, a socially inept, emotionally shuttered young man with Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism. [...]

di Sarah Lyall, articolo completo (6945 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 26 Luglio 2009