IF there's one thing Ginnifer Goodwin has learnt from her experience in He's Just Not That Into You, it is that there have been times when guys weren't really that into her.
Said the bubbly 30-year-old actress: 'We all do know that someone else is not into you. We just don't want to deal with it.'
But Goodwin said she's always been someone who shies away from dealing with tough love.
Like if she had to counsel a friend about a one-sided relationship.
'I've always been that girl who said, 'No, no, no, you're just too successful and beautiful', and I'm really sincere about it.
'But having been in the movie, I've felt this really unfortunate responsibility to be like, 'Nope, move on, you can't do this anymore'.'
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Goodwin has often played supporting roles in movies like Walk The Line, Win A Date With Tad Hamilton! and Mona Lisa Smile.
She can also be seen on the ongoing HBO series Big Love.
Centre of things
In He's Just Not That Into You however, Goodwin plays central character Gigi, the catalyst who links the movie's various subplots into one cohesive story.
And Gigi's honesty was something that Goodwin related to deeply, citing her character's commitment and resilience to find The One despite delusions and fanatical desperation.
While the phrase is never uttered in the movie and she only read the book after the film had wrapped, Goodwin found much wisdom in Behrendt's pragmatism.
'I took from the book that if we can just all go at things with a black-and-white view, if we waste all our time to be the exception, we're going to try to make all the wrong people fit.
'You might end up as the exception, but you cannot aim for that,' said Goodwin emphatically.
As for her search for The One, Goodwin is recently single, after having just broken up with her boyfriend of two years, actor Chris Klein.
Klein infamously dated Katie Holmes before she married Tom Cruise.
Said Goodwin of her love life: 'If I end up married, I'll end up with a big family. I'm a very traditional proper Southern lady.'
This article was first published in The New Paper.