Greta Gerwig had the perfect ending for 'Little Women.' Here's why she kept it a secret
Greta Gerwig knew how to end her new adaptation of "Little Women," the eighth film version of Louisa May Alcott's classic girlhood novel. She also knew not everyone would like her idea, so she decided to shoot it surreptitiously, betting she could pull it off.
Judging from the early reviews of the film, which will open Christmas Day, she did - though that doesn't mean the experience wasn't a little nerve-racking.
"You know how with each new draft of a script you have a different paper color ... so you have the pink draft, the blue draft, the green draft, and it goes to everybody, and you have the possibility of a bunch of notes?" Gerwig says. "This was just one of those things where I thought, 'I know what I want to do here. And I don't want to debate it. I want to just do
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