Brontë Academy of Drama

The Sunday news bring a couple of references to actors who have played some Brontë character in the past. We read on Austenblog that rumour has it that Charity Wakefield might be the new Marianne Dashwood in the upcoming version of Sense and Sensibility.

Charity Wakefield as Marianne Dashwood. She was Miss Temple in the recent Jane Eyre miniseries.

She does look like she would make a great Marianne Dashwood. Hopefully her scenes won't get cut like in the latest Jane Eyre. Although they can now be seen in the extras of the DVD (which you can win!)

Then Ralph Fiennes is the man of the day since two newspapers have a profile on him.

The Scotsman:

Around this time he made his first visit to Scotland and the Edinburgh Film Festival to promote his film debut as Heathcliff in a deservedly little-seen version of Wuthering Heights. Even then, with only a TV dramatisation of the life of T E Lawrence under his belt, he made plain his dislike of interviews. "What I distrust is the way the press field an actor's image," he says. "I don't believe that 30 or 40 years ago it was as invasive as it is today. If this is fame, it is something quite unnerving and unbelievable."
His roles as Lawrence and Heathcliff caught the attention of Steven Spielberg, who cast him in the pivotal role of amoral concentration camp commander Amon Goeth in Schindler's List. He gained 30 pounds for the part and earned an Oscar nomination as best supporting actor.

The Times:

The flying loo episode seemed to accentuate Fiennes’s contradictions — a man painfully shy in interviews and passionately committed to Third World issues, while enjoying a reputation as a compulsive flirt and capable of impressing Steven Spielberg with the “sexual evil” of his Heathcliff in the film Wuthering Heights. Spielberg promptly cast him as Amon Goeth, the sadistic concentration camp commandant in Schindler’s List, which won the actor an Oscar nomination and catapulted him into the Hollywood firmament.

Funny that both fragments should mention his dislike of interviews - that might mean he's not too keen on profiles either :P
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