What is a guy to do when he doesn't believe in romance, yet his grandmother wants to take him on a road trip to find her long-lost love? Well, in [article id="1638029"]"Letters to Juliet,"[/article] Christopher Egan's Charlie goes along with it, lets down his walls and eventually realizes that love isn't as scary as he thinks it is.

While Charlie is a Debbie Downer about love through most of the flick, Egan is anything but that guy in real life. "[I'm] more like Sophie," he told MTV News, alluding to [article id="1638770"]Amanda Seyfried's upbeat character[/article] in the flick, opening Friday. "I'm pretty opposite to Charlie, which is why I had so much playing him too. To bring that jerk out and to be so nasty like that is fun."

In the film, Sophie answers a fifty-year-old letter a woman named Claire (Vanessa Redgrave) wrote to Juliet and stuck in a wall where the lovesick appeal to Shakespeare's tragic character for help. Claire and her grandson Charlie soon fly to Verona and take Sophie along on a road trip to look for the man Claire lost touch with so many decades earlier.

As it turns out, Egan had some experience in the Italian road-trip department. "I've done a road trip across Italy with a girlfriend, and that was very romantic," he revealed. "I think that road trips are probably one of the romantic things you can do. To take your girlfriend and just stay wherever; don't have a destination and just drive and see where the road takes you is pretty cool."

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