Wilsonites

Even if she didn't get her BAFTA Award, Ruth Wilson is one of the most fashionable, well-loved actresses out there at present, as can be seen from the amount of interviews and mentions she has in the press these days. Witness to this is this profile from The Independent on Dermot O'Leary (the frontman of Big Brother's Little Brother). The man's a Wilsonite:

... he raves about Ruth Wilson, who played Jane Eyre... (Liz Hoggard)

So he'd be interested in this article from The Times on Ruth Wilson.

Frankly, it is a surprise to find Jane Eyre talking mockney. You might expect a hint of Haworth in the occasional put-upon vowel sound, but not “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah”, “Innit?” and “Do you know what I mean?”, tinged with the salt-and-vinegar tang of the Thames estuary. (Patricia Nicol)

Heh. That was funny. Though of course some people would take this chance to complain about the 'modern' language used in the recent BBC production.

Though less than two years out of drama school, Wilson has proved herself a chameleon who takes technique seriously. Last autumn, her Sunday-night BBC Jane Eyre earned plaudits and ratings. [...]
Wilson heard she was up against Anne-Marie Duff, Samantha Morton and Victoria Wood for the best-actress Bafta two days after rehearsals [for her new play Philistines] started. “The whole thing has been mad, but amazing,” she says of the nomination when we meet a fortnight before the awards ceremony. “I mean, I’ve been getting designer dresses sent to me. I think I might have this Alberta Ferretti thing in there,” she says, indicating a large parcel on the table between us.
Wearing another lent designer dress, she was the only one in her category to attend the nominees’ party, moving through a celebrity hotchpotch that included Alan Sugar, Life on Mars’s Philip Glenister and Simon Schama – in spats. Her father had once given her a Schama box set, so she approached him. The encounter, as she retells it, seems to have turned her into one of Catherine Tate’s rude schoolgirls. “I went up and said, ‘Hi, Simon, I think your work’s great.’ And he said to me and my boyfriend, ‘You must be a nominee too ... congratulations – what for?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, for Jane Eyre.’ And he was like, ‘Oh, yeah, what did you do in that?’ And I was like, ‘Oh, I’m an actress and I played...’ And he was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s you.’ He’d totally seen it, but he didn’t recognise me.” (Patricia Nicol)

Hilarious! So there's someone else who was shocked not to find the real Jane Eyre. The more we read about her, the more we find this girl endearing, don't you?

We'd like to wish her the best of luck in all her future projects.

Categories: Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV