The Decoy Bride Creative background
2022-10-07 18:07
The film is the first screenplay written by British comedian Sally Phillips and her partner Neil Jaworski. People around her have been urging her to write a romantic comedy for a long time, but among the popular comedies, what she dislikes most is the cynicism and self-compassion in it. Sally Phillips expressed that she loves Scotland and she believes that the film should be a "super romantic Disney style" film about Scotland. She sets the protagonist of the film as a girl from the Hebrides of Scotland because she believes that Scottish women are strong and not willful
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Extended Reading
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James Arber: I've been trying to get your attention with conventional weapons: phones, emails, that sort of thing.
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James Arber: They say "Write about what you know;" so, obviously, I set it against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.