Is Anne Hathaway's Movie 'The Idea of You' About Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde? We Investigated

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vibes back into our lives. The male romantic lead in her new movie, The Idea of You, is rumored to be based on Styles himself.The novel—written by Robinne Lee, who is also a co-producer on the film with Hathaway—follows the story of a 40-year-old mom and divorcée Sophie, who starts a love affair with a British pop star name Hayes Campbell, who leads boy band, August Moon.

Sound familiar yet?Anne Hathaway will play Sophie, of course, while 28-year-old British actor Nicholas Galitzine (previously seen in Cinderella and Netflix's Purple Hearts) will play Hayes Campbell.The novel was published back in 2017, but Styles and Wilde in January 2020—Wilde from Jason Sudeikis the same year—so the stories don't run completely parallel. “This was never supposed to be a book about Harry Styles,” Lee told in an interview. “It was supposed to be a story about a woman approaching 40 and reclaiming her sexuality and rediscovering herself, just at the point that society traditionally writes women off as desirable and viable and whole.”She concedes that she considered both Harry Styles and Prince Harry as inspirations, but Lee also had a relationship with a younger man herself, so it's perhaps more accurate to say the novel, and film, are made up of a mix of influences.But whether or not The Idea Of You is about Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde, it's set to bring some important issues to the forefront.

Lee describes wanting to express the feeling of “restlessness” women feel, “exploring how women of a certain age cease to be seen.”“You want to just live the way you've lived when you were in college, or your early twenties, when you freedom and you never have to think of anyone but yourself,” she explains.“You're no longer the hot one.