“It was the starting point of the novel,” author David Nicholls says.
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Warning: This post contains spoilers for Netflix’sOne Day.
We know what you’re thinking, and yes, Emma Morley was always going to die.
Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall.Credit:Ludovic Robert/Netflix
As the story checked in with them one day each year, readers rooted for them to get together.
And eventually, they did!
The two were married, and all of the fights seemed worth it.
Ambika Mod in ‘One Day’.Netflix
Until one day, Emma was hit by a car while she was riding her bike.
And then, she died.
“So I’m aware that for some people it feels like a trick or cheating or something.
To me, it was the starting point of the novel.
So the novel is about a day that seems ordinary.
Why are we seeing this day?
It’s a pretty eventful day, but why aren’t we seeing the day they get married?
Why aren’t we seeing them at Christmas?
Why aren’t we seeing all of these other things, which they talk about?
Oh, the reason we’re seeing this day is because of this.”
“That was always the premise.
“And so it’s always been central to the premise.”
Although, she’d like you to know she thought about keeping Emma alive.
“I interrogated it fully.
I felt that was necessary,” Taylor says.
“I didn’t feel under any pressure to change the ending or to keep the ending.
I just wanted to reinterview it for its place in the piece.”
And yet, her conclusion was that it was an important piece of Dexter and Emma’s story.
“One Dayis available on Netflix now.
