“Dead to Me” and “Sneakerella” director Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum resonated with many of the themes in the complex story of Netflix’s romantic drama “Purple Hearts,” but when the project first came to her, it had a radically different point of view.
“The script came to me four years ago, and it was a bit different. It was really featuring Luke. He was the lead and we felt like it should be a little bit more like through the female gaze,” she said, adding that she and writers Liz Garcia and Kyle Jarrow subsequently restructured and reoriented the movie to what it is now.