“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
“Emillio is the Lothario. He gets to hook up with a lot of girls in the movie… I think the amazing thing about Emilio was the fact that he wasn’t originally in the script. He was originally a Hungarian foreign exchange student, and then Chris met me one day and went, “Ooh, hang on,” and then wrote Emilio. So I guess that’s what he thinks of me.