RadioTimes.com<\/a> ahead of the film\u2019s UK release, Smart explained how there was one person in particular who she researched while she was preparing for the role.<\/p>\n\u201cThere\u2019s one girl, Elinor Glyn, who was a British screenwriter who came to Hollywood in the \u201920s,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd she also was a novelist \u2013 she is credited with coming up with the phrase It Girl and sort of helping Clara Bow become a star, and she even wrote one of the screenplays that Clara Bow did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Smart continued: \u201cShe also wrote a novel called Three Weeks, which was considered sort of the \u201920s version of 50 Shades of Grey. So she was also a rather unconventional person, but was attracted to what was going on out here and moved to Hollywood.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I think for all of her seeming to be kind of an objective observer, you see towards the end that she\u2019s also caught up in the magic of filmmaking and how it makes people literally immortal.\u201d<\/p>