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Set in Manhattan during the record-breaking heatwave of July 2019, The Intern: A Summer of Lust follows Maya Chen (played by then-unknown Alisha Roy), a 22-year-old recent college graduate who lands a prestigious internship at Vanguard Media, a dying print magazine trying to go digital.
Maya is sharp, ambitious, and fresh out of a three-year relationship. She expects long hours, coffee runs, and a resume line. What she doesn’t expect is Julian Thorne (British actor Liam Hartley), the magazine’s newly hired 38-year-old creative director—a brooding, divorced former fashion photographer with a reputation for chaos.
The film leans heavily into pre-pandemic nostalgia. 2019 was the last “normal” summer – crowded subways, crowded bars, crowded emotional mistakes. The director, Sophia Moreau, has stated in rare interviews: “I wanted to film the feeling of knowing something is ending but still grabbing it with both hands.”
The soundtrack, featuring now-iconic 2019 tracks (Lizzo’s “Juice,” Rosalía’s “Con Altura,” Tame Impala’s “Borderline”), amplifies the sticky, reckless mood. Note: There appears to be limited mainstream information