I can't make sense of the script piece of the supposed 'lifting scene'.
Is it only me that I can't wrap my head around how the lifting was going to be with this script?
According to Baldoni (April 22, 2023): In preparation for a lift sequence in which Baldoni’s character “Ryle” would lift Lively’s character “Lily”, Baldoni reached out to his personal trainer (a close friend of Lively’s) to ask what Lively weighed so that he could train his back muscles for the scene.
The script goes:
It is talking about the scene in the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXJNLYpn6mM&ab_channel=Movieclips
and in the book:
"...I’m still laughing as I lean over to get a look at Ryle’s hand. I hope he didn’t hurt it too bad. I’m instantly not laughing anymore. I’m on the floor, my hand pressed against the corner of my eye. In a matter of one second, Ryle’s arm came out of nowhere and slammed against me, knocking me backward. There was enough force behind it to knock me off balance. When I lost my footing, I hit my face on one of the cabinet door handles as I came down..."
What is going on in the script like, why is he scooping her up *just to lay her back on the floor*? Am I missing something? Then they kiss on the floor until she closes her eyes ON THE FLOOR? And why is lifting such an odd way proof that he was preparing himself for weeks for this ridiculous detail?