Zooey Deschanel Shares Dream Ending for ‘Almost Famous’ and ‘500 Days of Summer’ Characters

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Zooey Deschanel has her own dream endings for two of her most iconic movie characters: Anita from Almost Famous and Summer from 500 Days of Summer.“The thing about Anita is you don’t really know that much about her other than she’s, like, a stewardess [or] a flight attendant,” Deschanel, 43, exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting her latest film project, Dreamin’ Wild. “And she loves music.”Deschanel, who portrayed Anita in the 2000 coming-of-age film, noted that her character was “the catalyst, in a way, by leaving a record collection” for her brother, William Miller (Patrick Fugit), who is the protagonist. (In the movie, high schooler William hits the road with rock band Stillwater while trying to land a cover story for Rolling Stone.)Despite knowing very little about Anita, Deschanel thinks the character is “hopefully doing something [in] music” after traveling all over the world.When it comes to Summer’s happily ever after, Deschanel envisions a romantic story line.“I hope Summer and Tom found each other again later in life,” she told Us, referring to her 500 Days of Summer character’s onscreen love interest, Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt).In the 2009 rom-com, Tom falls for Summer — who later breaks his heart.

While Tom picks up the pieces and gets a second chance at love with Autumn (Minka Kelly), fans are still vocal to this day about how Summer treated Tom.“Watch it again.

It’s mostly Tom’s fault,” Gordon-Levitt, 42, tweeted in 2018 in response to continued fan backlash over the movie’s ending. “He’s projecting.

He’s not listening. He’s selfish. Luckily he grows by the end.”Deschanel echoed her costar’s sentiment in 2019, telling Entertainment Weekly, “I’m just so surprised when women will be like, ‘I hated your