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“For the first half, I thought, OK there’s no film. This is unadaptable, because, you know, [Liptrot] book started off as an internet blog, and it almost feels like you are reading someone’s diary. It’s so internal. It’s just like a thought process of memory layers, it jumps in four lines in one sentence,” Fingscheidt tells ScreenCraft.
“But the more I got sort of into the location and into her character and all that with Saoirse [Ronan] in mind, I thought, OK maybe there is an adaptation. But it would need to be quite radical, you know, in terms of it needs to keep the nerdiness of her character alive. And we have to embrace the fact that this is a woman going into isolation spending two winters by herself on a tiny remote island in a tiny cottage,” she adds.
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