Emily Longeretta SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “One Day” now streaming on Netflix. Before auditioning for the latest adaptation of “One Day,” Leo Woodall watched its first iteration.
In the 2011 film, Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess starred as Emma and Dexter, a pair of best friends who reunite on the same day each year.
The TV series follows the same format, beginning when the duo, portrayed by Ambika Mod and Woodall, meet in college in 1988.
Woodall, who was filming Season 2 of “The White Lotus” in Italy at the time, didn’t have time to read the book, so he watched the movie to gauge the story — and he was pulled in. “I just think it’s such a beautiful story.
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