The two rom-coms that inspired Geraldine Viswanathan’s ‘Broken Hearts Gallery’ performance

Geraldine Viswanathan fell in love when she read the screenplay for “The Broken Hearts Gallery.”
Not with Max or Nick, the male love interests in the romantic comedy the Australian actress had been offered, but with Lucy Gulliver, the character she’d play.
“I just wanted to be her/be her best friend,” Viswanathan says. “I thought she was just so unapologetically herself.
“And she wears her heart on her sleeve, and that’s a really brave thing to do,