Article: Very different love story; Susan Griffin finds out why Hugh Dancy's latest movie, Adam, is far from your typical rom-com.

Byline: Susan Griffin

IN ROM-COM land, a man who can't say 'I love you' never gets the girl. Yet romantic indie film Adam breaks all the rules, featuring a leading man who has no idea what love is.

Living with a form of autism known as Asperger syndrome, Adam (played by Hugh Dancy) is charming, kind and humblingly straight-forward man who is unable to relate to human emotions.

"I did think of it as the 'antiacting' role, " explains Dancy, last seen opposite Isla Fisher in Confessions of a Shopaholic.

"Everything you usually bring to a role, like empathy and connection and communication and reaction were denied me."

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