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Lily James felt “guilty” and a “bit of a fake” starring in Swiped as she has never used a dating app.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old actress plays 36-year-old entrepreneur Whitney Wolfe Herd – Bumble’s founder and former CEO – in her biopic.<\/p>\n
James is quoted by the Sunday People newspaper as saying: “I feel guilty and a bit of a fake playing this creator of these apps, having never really done it.”<\/p>\n
To get an idea of what it is like being on a dating app, the star used her friend’s phone to “research” for the newly-released movie.<\/p>\n
James added: “But I did steal my friend’s phone in preparation for this film, for research.<\/p>\n
“A lot of actually doing this movie kind of speaks to people.<\/p>\n
“One of the long-term producers on this film met their partner on Bumble, and it’s pretty profound.”<\/p>\n
James – who dated former 42-year-old Doctor Who star Matt Smith from 2014 until 2019 – said she has always preferred to meet people in person.<\/p>\n
The star added: “I am scared that we are losing this – a lost art of seeing someone in the bar and just catching their eye and going over.<\/p>\n
“I hope that that doesn’t disappear.”<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, James stars in the reboot of Sylvester Stallone’s 1993 action-thriller Cliffhanger as Naomi Cooper, after she replaced 79 year old Stallone.<\/p>\n
She said of the upcoming film – which also stars Pierce Brosnan, 72, and is set to be released in 2026: “It is the most amazing film, and I guess Sylvester Stallone wasn’t available, so they just thought … Lily James.”<\/p>\n
The original Cliffhanger was directed by Renny Harlin, 66, and it follows Gabe Walker (Stallone) as a rescue mission embroils him in a botched air heist by a group of international criminals.<\/p>\n
James learned how to climb for the movie – and she loved the thrilling experience.<\/p>\n
She said: “I was on holiday in Ibiza last year, and I suddenly remembered.<\/p>\n
“So I found a teacher there and spent weeks and weeks climbing with him for five hours a day and fell completely in love with it.”<\/p>\n
Pierce portrays mountaineer Ray Cooper, and James is his daughter Naomi, who has to \u201csave her family\u201d and \u201cfight for survival in the Italian Dolomites”.<\/p>\n
As well as James and Brosnan, the cast also includes Nell Tiger Free, 25, Franz Rogowski, 39, Shubham Saraf, 33, Assaad Bouab, 45, Suzy Bemba, 25, and Bruno Gouery, 50.<\/p>\n
Jaume Collet-Serra is taking over to direct the flick, meaning Ric Roman Waugh, 57, is no longer taking the helm.<\/p>\n
The synopsis of the Cliffhanger reboot reads: \u201cIn this reboot of Cliffhanger, seasoned mountaineer Ray Cooper (Pierce Brosnan) and his daughter Sydney run a mountain chalet in the Dolomites.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring a weekend trip with a billionaire’s son, they are targeted by a gang of kidnappers. Ray’s older daughter Naomi (Lily James), still haunted by a past climbing accident, witnesses the attack and escapes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The original movie was nominated for three Oscars for Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects, but lost out on them all to Jurassic Park.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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