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I was thinking about relationships between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir and this kind of the dynamic between an intellectual couple of a certain era.

On a gray August afternoon, I meet the actor at his friend’s house in De Beauvoir Town, a leafy neighborhood in northeast London where he and his fiancée, the English actress and musician Suki Waterhouse, have been staying with their baby girl while visiting from Los Angeles, and walk to a ceramics studio about a mile down the road.

Instead, she suggested they should read Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir or Charlotte Bronte.

Ms. Chen was lounging in the attic reading nook of a bookstore, perusing the Simone de Beauvoir novel “All Men Are Mortal.”

“Fitting In” opens with consecutive quotes from Simone de Beauvoir and “Jennifer’s Body,” as if to telegraph that its story straddles culture of both the high and pop variety.