The idea of ??having you is that unexpected movie. Prime Video made an effort to promote it: with the hype strategy (and red carpets and interviews) that is usually assigned to theatrical films. When we found the title with Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine in the catalogue, we were surprised: it was good, no ifs and buts, no feeling of guilt associated with viewing it.
The story is a kind of Harry Styles fan-fic. A twenty-something boy band singer feels an indescribable spark with a 40-year-old gallery owner who attends a festival where she performs: she is there on the rebound with her teenage daughter. He has chemistry and something to tell in his treatment of characters: the ageism towards women, the obstacles between two lovers when they meet at two different points in their lives and the vile and moralistic pressure that we exert against strangers on social networks.
And, for those with problems getting out of the loop or the infatuation posed by the film, here are two television series to watch, especially among those who think that Hathaway and Galitzine even elevate the material with their work.
In The Idea of ??Having You, the actress from The Devil Wears Prado acts as if she received an Oscar in the performance with so much talent and charisma that she overflows. She had not seen this aura of an innate star since in 2022 she gave us an outstanding miniseries and where she entered into symbiosis with her character: that of Rebekah Neumann, wife of Adam Neumann, founder of WeWork and professional smoke seller of capitalism. .
In eight episodes, Hathaway sells the Neumanns’ love story and also the extreme imbecility of Rebekah, Gwyneth’s real-life cousin, with her banal new age ideology and use of big words to sell the void. What a way to approach the character: from speech, eye movement, the use of costumes in her favor, finding the nuance in the tension between the self that we try to sell to society and the image that we really give. Extraordinary.
For viewers who have trouble getting over Nicholas Galitzine’s last look in The Idea of ??Having You, another proposal with nothing to do with it but that helps put the talent and beauty of the English actor in context: the historical drama Mary
Screenwriter D.C. Moore (Killing Eve), which is based on the book The King’s Assassin by Benjamin Woolley, tells the story of how Mary de Villiers (Julianne Moore), from humble origins and located in the lower aristocracy, plans how to rise socially: through beauty of her son George, who can serve as bait to hunt down the man-obsessed King James of England.
From here, he writes an intelligent and provocative historical drama about Machiavellian beings who puts sex on the table as a bargaining chip to access power and to what extent the system forces those who already have to be on guard (and with a suspicious attitude). They hold all the privileges, at least in England at the beginning of the 17th century, where a wrong move could lead to the subject being hanged.
What a merit that of Galitzine, who plays a man whose only virtue is his beauty, selling his physical attributes to the viewer, understanding how to convey the security that only those who are comfortable in their own body have, but also the insecurity of being aware of the limitations.
