Even Uma Thurman feels the pull of the romantasy boom

Uma Thurman s work with Quentin Tarantino made her the it girl of multiple generations As Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction she oozed downtown cool that was stifled by the realities of being a rich man s wife As The Bride in Kill Bill she radiated menace while barely letting her voice rise above a whisper selling untold amounts of posters in the process But the tide rolls endlessly in and out and it will eventually wash all our GOATs That s how the coolest actress of her era ends up reading fiction from the recommendations list of TikTokers pulling Pixar faces In a new interview with The Times of London Uma Thurman goes long on how she chooses her movies what it s like to be a mother of adult children and how she got back into sword-fighting for her turn in The Old Guard When the topic turns to her bookshelf Thurman admits she s become a fan of stories of orcs and elves in love Related Shades of green What gig financial sector workers can learn from the success of romance writers Now non-fiction is just too brutal she announced of her latest literary obsession The world has driven me to romantasy Really really teenage stuff It s a great alternative to the newspapers right now When petitioned for specific titles Thurman declined out of embarrassment I can t tell you she noted It will make me blush Romance stories described against the backdrop of fantasy worlds have almost single-handedly driven a boom in print book sales saw the first increase in print book sales in several years with romantasy books seeing their sales rise by over per Publishers Weekly Four of the top fiction titles last year came either from Sarah J Maas Court of Thorns and Roses or Rebecca Yarros Empyrean series leading lights in the subgenre If anything Thurman is not alone in finding herself drawn to the mashup genre that straddles the line between young adult fiction and bodice-rippers Thurman might feel a particular kinship with dragon-slayers and knights as she also trained extensively to learn how to weild a sword for Kill Bill The actress shared that she identified that ability right where she left it when it came time to film action scenes for Old Guard Thank God for that because I signed on quite late for this project so I didn t have time to do proper training she announced Fortunately I had put in hundreds of hours learning how to hold a sword If your brain has learnt how to memorize sequences of movements you can get back in that zone Read more about this topic If the Romance Writers of America can implode over racism no group is safe The L Word Generation Q Shanes I have known Why can t Hollywood sci-fi and fantasy imagine alternatives to capitalism or feudalism The post Even Uma Thurman feels the pull of the romantasy boom appeared first on Salon com