Max Mayer News

August 6, 2009
Hugh Dancy Talks Adam - RT Interview
Confessions of a Shopaholic, Shooting Dogs, Ella Enchanted... If Hugh Dancy was in danger of being cast as the posh English heartthrob, his latest role has put paid to that. In the offbeat comedy-drama Adam from writer/director Max Mayer, the 34-year-old Brit plays a lonely New Yorker with Asperger Syndrome, a form of autism. Adam's lack of social skills make his courtship of neighbour Beth (Rose Byrne) comically awkward, and their resulting relationship a testing one. We caught up with Dancy at the film's Edinburgh premiere - where fiancé Claire Danes was on his arm -- to talk about playing the new Forrest Gump. More...