

“I just focused really hard on getting it right and trying to keep that back and forth between Lucy and Joshua, like a game of ping pong.” In all my fizzled earlier manuscripts, I’d struggled with dialogue in a major way,” the author told Cassie Hamer during an interview for her website in March 2016. “When I was writing The Hating Game my personal challenge was to write really snappy dialogue.

“I’m trapped here, day after endless day with my one maniacal nemesis,” Hale’s character says in the November 2021 video.ĭuring a comedic scene in the elevator, Lucy sets up the story line, telling Joshua, “If you get the job I’ll resign, just like you will if I do.” Her coworker responds, “I’m incapable of giving you that pleasure,” to which Lucy fires back, “It’s not the first time you’ve said that to a woman, is it?”Īhead of The Hating Game’s film adaption, Thorne opened up about the process of creating such unique voices within the narrative.

Love at second sight? With Sally Thorne’s The Hating Game being adapted into a movie, the pressure is on when it comes to the chemistry between Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell.įans of the 2016 romance novel got a glimpse at the banter between office enemies Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman in the official trailer for the film.
