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The director of Another Simple Favor discusses how Emily ’s new husband was originally written as the villain of the Prime Video subsequence .
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Another Simple Favor , Paul Feig’saudacious sequel to 2018’sA Simple Favor , dives back into the macrocosm of Emily Nelson ( Blake Lively ) and Stephanie Smothers ( Anna Kendrick ) with new reference , a unexampled marriage , and new bother , all stem from Emily ’s unexpected and high - visibility return . And this time around , she ’s with Dante Mancini ( Michele Morrone ) , a mob - connected fiancé , whose lavish Capri wedding becomes a catalyst for murder and charge .
While Dante egress as a polar figure in the subsequence , it actually turns out that his role was originally far darker , as Feig recently reveal , offering insight into how the eccentric ’s arc evolved to expand the picture show ’s wholly unhinged energy . Here ’s what we learned .
Paul Feig Reveals Details About the Original Script forAnother Simple Favor
In a newinterview , Feig disclosed , " In the original hand , Dante was more of a speculative guy . It turn out that he was a bad guy rope and he staged his death , and they had to go on the foot race because Emily was like , ' They ’re going to kill me . He set me up to look like I vote out him . ' It was a really fun script , more of a caper . It had a lot of thing where Emily had to be underground , so she was dressing like a nun and fecundation like a normal somebody . I was like , ' I do n’t know if any of us require Emily to dress like a normal soul . ' It had them running through Naples and Rome , and we decided to keep it more incorporate and bestow the physical structure count up much higher . "
The shift to a moderate , bloodier story transformed Dante into a more sympathetic figure , whose wedding to Emily becomes a playground for pandemonium when murder , starting with Sean ’s , unravel a plot of ground involving Emily ’s triplet , Charity . Fortunately , Morrone ’s hatch charisma grounds Dante , give his stakes feel personal rather than nefarious . The decision to ditch the heist - esque , caper genre elements also preserve Emily ’s glamourous boundary and her sexual love for the limelight , aline with the sequel ’s campy , truthful - criminal offense - inspired tone of voice . But now that we do it what could have been , what do you cerebrate feel like the stronger sequel concept ?
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