

You have never invaded Wales, and for that we are thankful” and so on. You may have heard of famous Welsh people like Catherine Zeta Jones and Anthony Hopkins. I come from a country called Wales, which is near England. One thing they’ve added is a card at the start saying something along the lines of “ Dear Americans, I am Oliver Tate.

Have there been any significant changes to the film ahead of the American release? Harvey Weinstein is notorious for cutting films to make them more palatable. I spoke with Dunthorne not long ago about his experience working with Ayoade and the process of adaptation. The film version, which was adapted by Richard Ayoade, was picked up by Harvey Weinstein and Ben Stiller and opens today in the U.S. Novelist Joe Dunthorne’s delightfully British debut, Submarine, is told from the point of view of teenager Oliver Tate, whose twin mission is to lose his virginity by his sixteenth birthday and to salvage his parents’ ailing marriage.
