Summary
The Notebook’s Nick Cassavetes apologizes for previous comments he made about Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. Cassavetes is the director of the modern classicromance filmThe Notebook, which was based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. The film starred Gosling and McAdams in the lead roles, with supporting performances from Gena Rowlands, James Garner, Starletta DuPois, and Ed Grady. It remains one of the most-rewatched romance films of its time.
Speaking withEntertainment Weekly, Cassavetes reveals his thoughts on his previous comments about Gosling and McAdams. The director noted that during an interview forThe Notebook, he spilled the beans on some on-set tension between McAdams and Gosling. Afterward, he “regretted it” saying he had been “caught on a bad day.” He said thathe wishes to “apologize to” McAdams and Gosling for revealing this drama. Check out the full quote from Cassavetes below:
The last time I did an interview on this thing, I spilled the beans on that. I regretted it. Everyone’s like, why are you telling that? I’m like, I don’t know. It caught me on a bad day, but if [McAdams and Gosling] are around, I apologize to you guys. I shouldn’t have spilled the beans.
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Cassavetes' apology comes a decade after his original commentary on the actors. In a 2014 interview withVH1, Cassavetes described one day thatGosling and McAdams were “really not getting along” while filmingThe Notebook. The director even went into specifics, saying that Gosling approached him and said “Would you take her out of here and bring in another actress to read off-camera with me?” because he was not able to do the scene with McAdams. Cassavetes even elaborated by saying that the actors “started screaming a yelling at each other.”
Cassavetes also implies that this unfortunate day onThe Notebookset was not just a small blip in the production process. Rather, “the rest of the film wasn’t smooth sailing,” but merely “smoother sailing” than it had been on the fateful day he described. Even in 2014, he was unearthing set drama from a decade back, unprovoked. Given there had not been much publicity aboutThe Notebookstars' on-set relationship, many questioned why Cassavetes would bother to bring that up, as he notes in his quote.
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Hearing the negative on-set behavior may have sullied some viewers' experience of watchingThe Notebook, as thechemistry between Noah and Allieis critical in the film. Furthermore, both actors had gone on to have vibrant careers after the romance film, so Cassavetes speaking out did not look great for them. Though both McAdam’s and Gosling’s careers have continued to flourish even after Cassavetes unveiledThe Notebookdrama, it is good to see the director come around to apologize for his unnecessary reveal.
The Notebook
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Adapted from Nicholas Sparks' novel of the same name, The Notebook is a romantic drama film that follows a couple who fall in love during the 1940s. Duke, an older man, recounts the story of two young lovers whose lives never lined up quite right to a fellow patient in his nursing home. Reading from the notebook pages, the movie keeps flashing from the present into the past to tell the story of the one that got away.
