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Piper Perabo.


Romantic comedies usually end with a wedding. But Imagine Me & You, the new lesbian romance by British filmmaker Ol Parker, starts with "I do" and unravels from there. Piper Perabo (Lost and Delirious de·lir·i·ous
adj.
Of, suffering from, or characteristic of delirium.
) plays the proper bride who's distracted by a dashing lesbian florist (Lena Headey Lena Headey (born on 3 October, 1973, in Bermuda) is a British actress. Biography
Her father, a British police officer, was sent to train police in Bermuda where Headey was born. The family returned to Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, when she was eight years old.
).

How did you convince Ol Parker to cast a girl from New Jersey in his British comedy?

It was a fight. Ol's wife, Thandie Newton Thandiwe Adjewa "Thandie" Newton (born on November 6, 1972 in Zambia) is an English BAFTA Award-winning actress.[2] Biography
Early life
Newton was born in Zambia, to a Zimbabwean health-care worker, Nyasha[3][4]
, was going to play the florist. My agent sent me the script knowing I'd always wanted to work with her. Then she and Ol got pregnant, and she couldn't do it. But eventually I talked him into coming to New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 and just letting me audition for him.

How did Lena Headey land the role?

Lena and I had spent the previous spring together in Romania doing this action movie--the Carpathian Mountains Carpathian Mountains

Mountain system, eastern Europe. It extends along the Slovakia-Poland border and southward through Ukraine and eastern Romania about 900 mi (1,450 km). Its highest peak, Gerlachovka (in Slovakia), rises 8,711 ft (2,655 m).
, not exactly a day spa. We became fast friends. When I heard they were considering Lena, I called Ol and said, "It's such a good idea."

How was it shooting your love scene with Lena among the roses in her shop?

You can try to get all the thorns off roses, but there's always still a couple them. They would work their way up your clothing, down your--it was very, like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

You seemed to love playing Paulie, the hot-headed hot-headed
Adjective

impetuous, rash, or hot-tempered

hot-headedness n

hot-headed
adjective volatile 
 lesbian teen who's determined to win back her girlfriend in Lost and Delirious.

It's so hard--especially at that age--to find hem roles. And to play a young gay woman who's not about to bend for anyone, I thought, That's how you get to that hero.
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Author:Stockwell, Anne
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief Article
Date:Jan 31, 2006
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