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Known for his work on the raunchily written Miami Rhapsody and Grapevine , Hope Springs director David Frankel talks to Roe McDermott about love, sex, intimacy, and eh, Richard Nixon.

The Hot Press Newsdesk, 25 Sep 2012

Other career highlights included an Academy Award for his short film Dear Diary and box office hits with Marley & Me and The Devil Wears Prada. However for Frankel, it’s the films that have a personal connection to his life that he remembers. That is why his 1995 debut Miami Rhapsody and his latest Hope Springs are closest to his heart.

“Miami Rhapsody was a pretty personal script, as Sarah Jessica Parker tries to intellectualise her fears and hopes about marriage – which never really works! My wife and I got married very late, for lots of reasons. One was the sense marriage seems so difficult when you’re on the outside. So many people stumble into it and then stagger out of it, and it didn’t seem worth the effort for all the pain marriage seems to cause. Luckily I can say we’ve been married 15 years and it’s totally been worth the effort.”

In Hope Springs Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play a married couple who have lost the ability to be intimate with each other, emotionally and physically. They attend couples’ counselling under the guidance of Steve Carell’s therapist.

Hope Springs has already garnered great reviews. Frankel, meanwhile, is busy working on One Chance, a fictionalised account about the rise of Britain’s Got Talent winner Paul Potts, to be played by James Cordon. (Despite internet rumours, Frankel insists that “Katy Perry is not going to be starring.”)

On the downside, however, all this talk about intimacy and sex has ironically landed the director in serious trouble with his wife.

“I dragged my 10-year-old kids to the premiere of Hope Springs and my wife had to drive them back to the hotel afterwards, and deal with a few questions. She had to try explain what oral sex was. I got a lot of flack about that!”

Hope Springs is in cinemas now.



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