Even though Jamie and Bea are total opposites, their friends trick them into going on a date with each other. Once Jamie and Bea realize that they’ve been duped, they hatch a plan to get revenge on their meddling friends: they’ll fake date, pretend to fall in love, and then have a horrible break-up. While pretending to be madly in love, Jamie and Bea start to wonder if their friends’ matchmaking wasn’t so off-base after all. We chat with Chloe Liese about inspiration, upcoming releases, and all things Two Wrongs Make a Right!
Q: What inspired you to write a retelling of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing? A: "I’m a Shakespeare lover who grew up enjoying reading his plays, seeing them performed, and watching adaptations for film and TV. While I’ve read some fabulous Austen retellings from the romance genre, I haven’t bumped into a ton of Shakespeare retellings, so I’d been thinking about writing one. During the early months of pandemic, I was comfort rewatching Much Ado About Nothing adapted for film, starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh, and I had this epiphany while watching it: in the play, Benedick and Beatrice don’t find out until the end of the story that they were tricked into realizing their feelings for each other under false pretenses, and they’re too happily in love to be mad about it, but, what if they’d found out sooner in the story? They would have been livid! I started thinking about how the concept of a group scheme to matchmake Benedick and Beatrice might need to be adjusted to translate into a modern setting, how I could update it to feel relatable and make sure it translated well, and I realized it would be perfect if I gave Benedick and Beatrice the chance to push back against being manipulated. If they realized that they’d been tricked into dating earlier on, when they were both still so determined to see the worst in each other, they’d have this delicious friction still but also a common goal of getting back at the people who duped them. I loved the idea of two people who had decided they were incompatible and had written each other off, being united by a revenge plot, determined to prove their friends wrong about their romantic compatibility, only to realize maybe their friends weren’t so wrong after all." (Chloe Liese 2022) Continue reading this article on "The Nerd Daily's" website by clicking HERE!
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