‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ Boss Talks the Series’ Fresh Take on the Love Story
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He’s a dashing librarian. She’s a gifted artist. But in this six-episode adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s revered novel, the meeting and subsequent love story of Henry DeTamble (Theo James, Sanditon) and Clare Abshire (Rose Leslie, Game of Thrones) is anything but typical.
Cursed with a genetic disorder that makes him time travel unwillingly, Henry often finds himself propelled into the past or future without even the clothes on his back. It’s dangerous, but his one huge chunk of luck is the universe sending him Clare. (She’s actually known Henry since childhood, when his future self was her “imaginary friend.”)
The time travel element is “a prism through which we see a tale of ordinary love. By scrambling it all up, it becomes fresh and joyous and sometimes frightening and tragic,” says The Time Traveler’s Wife exec producer Steven Moffat, a self-proclaimed “massive fan” of the book.
Still, this couple’s relationship has a time limit, as fate looms over them. “You need that drumbeat of doom that Audrey’s prose provides,” says Moffat, adding, “I hope I’ve found a way of conveying that visually, right from the first episode. You won’t miss it!”
The Time Traveler’s Wife, TBA, HBO
This is an excerpt from TV Guide Magazine’s 2022 Preview issue. For more inside scoop on what’s coming to TV and streaming in the new year, pick up the issue, on newsstands.
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Theo is super talented, so I am looking forward to seeing him in the Time Travelers Wife. Rose Leslie is talented too. They will be great together.
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Really looking forward to this, Theo and Rose are the perfect Henry and Clare and Steven's interview proves that he really understands the book well. Just wish we had a trailer!
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Rose Lesley is such a terrible choice for a lead in any series, especially this one. Zero talent, zero charisma, terrible looking and we are supposed to believe Theo would fall for that???
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Kit Harington fell for that
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she is talentless anyway she has the charisma of used toilet roll
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Theo is a beautiful man, but I don't think he's a vain man. His wife is no more attractive than Rose Leslie.
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