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"Zoe Kazan has revealed that she did not draw on her and Paul Dano&amp;#039;s real-life romance for Ruby Sparks. Kazan penned the screenplay for Ruby Sparks, which sees her playing the physical embodiment of a fictional character created by a struggling writer (Dano).   Discussing the movie with Reuters, Kazan said that Ruby Sparks is entirely a fictional tale. &amp;quot;Paul is an incredibly private person. And I think that if I had written us, he would never have agreed to act in it,&amp;quot; she admitted. &amp;quot;And also, we would make a really boring movie, to be totally frank. We&amp;#039;re pretty straightforward, uncomplicated. There&amp;#039;s no power play. The worst it ever gets is a fight about what we&amp;#039;re going to have for dinner.&amp;quot; Kazan went on to explain that the movie is actually a response to the ways women are often presented in the media.  &amp;quot;I was thinking [for the film] about characters that feel real to me. The best example I can think of is Annie Hall,&amp;quot; she commented. &amp;quot;Woody Allen wrote this character that was obviously inspired by women he knew, or a woman he knew, but how much did he define Diane Keaton by writing Annie Hall?  &amp;quot;Or how much did she define him by being who she was, for him to have a muse? And what is the flip side of that? What is her experience?&amp;quot; She continued: &amp;quot;Then I was thinking about something that feels less well-rounded. I don&amp;#039;t want to use a movie example, so I&amp;#039;ll take Britney Spears. Britney Spears was both the pop creation and a real person. When we were looking at the pop creation, we were looking at, like, two percent of what the real person was.  &amp;quot;And I started thinking about some movies where the character feels two-dimensional, or their musical taste stands in for their personality. If that&amp;#039;s two percent of the iceberg, what does the rest of the iceberg look like? That kind of thinking started to get my brain moving in this direction.&amp;quot; Antonio Banderas, Steve Coogan, Annette Bening and Elliott Gould make up the movie&amp;#039;s all-star cast. Ruby Sparks is now playing in the US and opens on October 12 in the UK. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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