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‘Rivals’ Star David Tennant and Producer Felicity Blunt on Making the Sex-Soaked, Occasionally ‘Uncomfortable’ Jilly Cooper Adaptation: ‘It’s Like a Naughty Bridget Jones’
‘Rivals’ star David Tennant and producer Felicity Blunt on adapting Jilly Cooper's sex-soaked, occasionally ‘uncomfortable’ novel.
Like many of Cooper’s novels, “Rivals” is set in a fictional village called Rutshire in the English countryside, depicting a cornucopia of couples as they flirt, fight and fornicate. One particular plot point discussed at length in the writers’ room – which included Blunt, an exec producer on the project and Happy Prince chief creative officer Dominic Treadwell-Collins – was a scene in which Campbell-Black gropes Taggie while she’s catering a fancy dinner party. The explosive season finale, which sees Tony slap Cameron across the face before she eventually bashes him over the head with a gold television award, is one of the few times the series deviates from the book.
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