He told me at the end that he would be back in Paris in a few weeks and we could reconvene then. We started talking about our lives, and we went to the cafeteria to have a coffee, and then I found out he was living in London at that moment. And we connected, completely unexpectedly because I was expecting to work during the trip, and I had some books to read and it was not my plan to talk to anyone.

But the train was six hours long, so we started talking. And when I got to my seat, a guy was in it, so we started arguing about that. It was February of last year, before the pandemic. Well, I was living in Paris at that moment, and I had to come to Spain for work. David ClearyĮsquire : Have you seen the episode yet? Do you know what happens in it?Ĭecilia: No! I don't know how they developed my story, I don't know anything. Lucy Boynton and Kit Harington portray Cecilia and her train crush in Amazon’s adaptation. Or, you know, that Kit Harington is playing him. They haven’t spoken for a while though, as they don’t live in the same country, and as of August 13-the day Modern Love Season 2 lands on Amazon Prime-Cecilia has yet to tell him their little love story is going to be in a TV show. She said yes.Ĭecilia’s story is now Episode 3 of the series, entitled “Strangers on a Train.” The episode takes some creative, romantic liberties with the real story of what happened-in reality, Cecilia’s train companion found her on Twitter a few weeks after the pandemic foiled their meet-up plans, and they exchanged numbers then.

Then, the Times called and asked if she might be interested in Amazon Prime Video adapting it into an episode for the second season of their hit anthology-style series Modern Love based on the column of the same name. It was published in April of 2020, as the pandemic raged on.

The 'Modern Love' Intro Song Exists in FullĬecilia wrote the story out in a few short sentences, and submitted it to the New York Times as a Tiny Love Story.

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