TikTok phenomenon ebook 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo' is about Golden Age Hollywood actress Evelyn Hugo. Who is Evelyn in response to?
It does not take long to scroll on TikTok and discover BookTok, the literary area of interest section of the social media app. While BookTok is known for expanding the recognition of already widespread titles, one of the most well-known books related to the app is The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (7HEH) through Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Fans of Reid's different works most probably know that Daisy Jones and the Six used to be inspired by real people, but who is the nature of Evelyn Hugo in keeping with? Keep studying for the whole thing you want to understand.
So, who's Evelyn Hugo based on?
Upon 7HEH's liberate in 2017, fans was curious that Evelyn, who spends the book recounting her lifestyles as an Old Hollywood starlet, was in accordance with a real person. As it turns out, they were not completely mistaken. In a 2018 interview with The Huffington Post, author Taylor Jenkins Reid cites a number of former movie actresses as the inspiration in the back of Evelyn.
First, she says, Evelyn's many marriages were impressed by way of Elizabeth Taylor. "You can’t write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor. And, obviously, the many marriages is a very striking thing Evelyn and Liz have in common."
Taylor provides, "I tried to craft a realistic portrayal of a deeply glamorous and scandalous woman. And when you do that, you’re bound to hit some of the same beats as the great Elizabeth Taylor."
However, Elizabeth Taylor isn't the one actress whose life and profession served as the basis for Evelyn. In 2022, Taylor published to PopSugar she changed into inspired to write 7HEH after reading an Ava Gardner biography titled Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversation.
Taylor explained that Ava hired a ghostwriter within the 1980s and advised him everything of her lifestyles. She reportedly virtually called it off when Frank Sinatra informed her no, but in 2013, after Ava and the ghostwriter died, the book was published.
Evelyn is a white-passing Cuban girl in the guide, so Taylor provides that actress Rita Hayworth was an enormous influence on her persona. "Also, Rita Hayworth is a really big inspiration because she was Spanish, and she came to Hollywood and she was getting roles that weren't leading roles the way that she wanted. So she changed her name, and she became Rita Hayworth. She went red, she curled up her hairline [to look like] a white woman."
Taylor continues to say that she also utilized books about LGBTQIA participants of Hollywood to tell details about Evelyn's sexuality and her relationships with other characters. She cites Scandals of Classic Hollywood by Anne Helen Petersen and Tab Hunter Confidential, Tab's autobiography, as influences on her paintings as smartly.
It's secure to mention that the ones adapting Evelyn's tale have clear issues of reference from which to pull. Fans are nonetheless eagerly looking ahead to casting news for the movie, which will be produced by way of Netflix. Until then, they'll simply have to keep re-reading the ebook!
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