After she makes a drunken show of herself at a work event, Lucy is hit with a double-whammy of getting fired and being dumped by Max. She is dating her boss, Max (Utkarsh Ambudkar), an art-world poser whose studious man-bun is a dead giveaway to hidden shallows. She plays funny and unfiltered Lucy, an art gallery assistant who has a quirky-stroke-creepy collection of mementos from past relationships cluttering her bedroom in a Brooklyn flatshare. But there is no messing with Viswanathan, who is undoubtedly the main attraction. Finally arriving in cinemas this weekend, it is something of a letdown: a funny but conventional glossy romcom. The Broken Hearts Gallery was supposed to be the big romcom of the summer – a little something for the ladies while their beaux piled into Tenet, possibly. Now comes a romcom vehicle for her leading actor talents, written and directed by Natalie Krinsky (whose script credits include Gossip Girl and Grey’s Anatomy).
“And it was just like, no! It didn’t really need to come up, and I love that…I think that was the only way that we could make it feel real.G eraldine Viswanathan is a 25-year-old Australian actor and comedian of Indian descent who has appeared in a handful of movie-stealing supporting roles, including Blockers and The Package. “During filming, we would be like, should we make a joke about this?” Viswanathan recalls. The Broken Hearts Gallery bucks a troubling industry standard, without drawing too much attention to its own diversity. Most Hollywood romantic comedies still have largely white casts. The film is also refreshingly inclusive, not least because Viswanathan, who is of Indian and Swiss descent, plays the lead.
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Though it will open at a difficult time for movie theaters, The Broken Hearts Gallery is a perfect summer send-off-a crisp, funny film, featuring an eternally sunny vision of New York and a Reformation-chic cast of characters, all of whom have considered inner lives. “As a Selenator myself,” she says dramatically, “that she even knows who I am is very, very bizarre to me.” If a pandemic weren’t devastating the world right now, the pair likely would have met along the promotional trail, the actor wagers. Gomez joined the project as a producer, but Viswanathan never met her on set. By the time Peters joined the set, Viswanathan was appropriately starstruck.Īlas, she never got the chance to act appropriately starstruck around Selena Gomez. But costar Soo (a Tony winner herself for originating the role of Eliza Hamilton in Hamilton) quickly rectified that, giving Viswanathan a YouTube tour of some of Peters’s most memorable performances.
Initially, the young comedic actor wasn’t terribly familiar with the Broadway legend. Viswanathan also got an extreme crash course in Broadway after Tony-winning icon Bernadette Peters joined the cast to play her character’s magisterial boss, Eva. I felt like we were doing that on set, too.” was this thing of Lucy pulling Nick out of his shell.
“He was quite nervous at the beginning because it was something totally different-comedy and having to improvise. “Our dynamic was pretty similar to Lucy and Nick’s,” she says. On set, Viswanathan bonded with her costars, including fellow Australian Montgomery. But then she meets Nick ( Dacre Montgomery), a charismatic, gently macho aspiring hotelier who lends her space to make an exhibit showcasing items donated by brokenhearted lovers all across the city. No amount of cajoling from her friends ( Philippa Soo and Molly Gordon) is enough to quell her sadness. The film, out September 11, stars Viswanathan as Lucy, a stylish art gallery assistant in New York, recouping after a breakup from her boyfriend Max ( Utkarsh Ambudkar). She was looking into the museum while preparing for her upcoming film, the sweet, Selena Gomez-produced rom-com The Broken Hearts Gallery, written and directed by Natalie Krinsky. “One that really stuck with me was a scab from a wound,” recalls actor Geraldine Viswanathan, who perused the museum’s online gallery. The museum boasts expected fare-lingerie, stuffed animals-but it can also host more outré curiosities. They encouraged their friends to do the same, assembling an array of lovelorn items and showing them to the public in the Museum of Broken Relationships, a traveling exhibit that has since been shown in Berlin, Stockholm, and Los Angeles. In 2006, two Croatian artists, Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić, cemented the end of their relationship by collecting sentimental items that spoke to their time together.
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