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Article: Learning to love; Hugh's role breaks all the rom-com rules: Movies.
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- Birmingham Mail (England)
- Article date:
- August 7, 2009
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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 a charming, kind and humblingly straightforward man who is unable to relate to human emotions.
"I did think of it as the 'anti-acting' 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." In the ...