How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
- The original script for How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days was written over a decade before production finally began in 2003.
- Before Kate Hudson was cast, several major A-list stars turned down the lead role because they felt the script was too risky.
- Many of the practical effects used in the climax were achieved without any CGI.
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is a 2003 American romantic comedy directed by Donald Petrie. Kate Hudson stars as Andie Anderson, a magazine columnist who bets her editor she can write a first-person article about driving a man away by doing everything women are told not to do in relationships β becoming clingy, jealous, emotionally suffocating, and redecorating his apartment in pink. Matthew McConaughey stars as Ben Barry, an advertising executive who simultaneously bets his colleagues he can make any woman fall in love with him in 10 days to win a lucrative campaign.
Neither knows about the other's bet, and the comedy arises from their cross-purposes β Andie is trying to be as repulsive as possible while Ben must be irresistibly charming under any circumstances. Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey's chemistry was the film's engine, their genuine attraction making both bets feel doomed from the start. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days earned $177 million worldwide on a $50 million budget.
