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Charlotte Riley as Cathy and more names

Baz Bamigboye writes in The Daily Mail about the ITV's new Wuthering Heights miniseries produced by Mammoth Screen and points out to her Cathy: Charlotte Riley (Picture Credits: Bee Gilbert) and not Katie Riley as was previously reported.
Charlotte Riley, who will play Catherine Earnshaw opposite Tom Hardy's Heathcliff in a two-part version of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, which Coky Giedroyc starts shooting next week for ITV. No, this is totally different from the big-screen production I've been banging on about for months, which films in the autumn. Ms Riley, currently to be seen as Anya in The Cherry Orchard at Chichester, will also appear in Stephan Elliott's film of Noel Coward's Easy Virtue later in the year. Burn Gorman, Andrew Lincoln and Sarah Lancashire also star.
EDIT:
Thanks to Faye who in a comment has pointed us to this Digital Spy discussion where several more names, besides Tom Hardy as Heathcliff, Andrew Lincoln as Edgar Linton and Sarah Lancashire as Nelly Dean have been disclosed.

From left to right: Hindley-Burn Gorman ; Isabella-Rosalind Halstead (EDITED); Linton Heathcliff-Tom Payne and Hareton-Andrew Hawley; Cathy Linton -Rebecca Night; Joseph - Des McAleer.

Picture Credits: Matt Holyoak / Sasha Gusov /Angus Deachar/Jerry Lampson/Sasha Gusov/Russel Erskine



Other names of the production include Olivia Hetreed (writer), Coky Giedroyc (director), Radford Neville (producer), Grenville Horner (production designer), Marella Shearer (make up & hair).

Let's end with some comments by Michael Fassbender, Heathcliff in the new Wuthering Heights film project, in The Irish Times:

In Cannes, it was announced that he will play Heathcliff in John Maybury's new movie of Wuthering Heights . Natalie Portman was to have played Cathy, but dropped out because of other commitments. "I'm very curious who they will cast as Cathy," Fassbender says. "Heathcliff is a great role, but I'm a bit nervous about it until I get my Yorkshire accent right."
He is bemused that the producers of Wuthering Heights are already claiming him as "the most exciting contemporary British actor" and "a Brando for Britain".

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At 5/30/2008 09:08:00 PM, Anonymous Faye said...

Ahh, i see. I can't believe they got her name wrong. I think she looks like a good Cathy. Burn Gorman is in it!! I assume he's playing Hindley.

Michael sounds lovely. I'm sure he's going to a great Heathcliff. I'm happy to hear he's doing a Yorkshire accent too. I'm excited for both adaptations.

 
At 5/30/2008 09:29:00 PM, Anonymous Faye said...

Oh God. I just had a horrible thought. Since this production is only going to do the first half, or so we think, for all we know the original reports could be wrong about that too. However, if they aren't doing the second generation and an Isabella hasn't be named yet. You don't think they've cut her, do you?

 
At 5/30/2008 10:34:00 PM, Anonymous Faye said...

Okay, i swear to God this is my last post tonight. But i was poking around and i found people talking here:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=24077820

If this is to be believed, then the ITV is going to do both generations. If you scroll down it also says who's playing Cathy Junior. Perhaps it's the film version where Heathcliff will commit suicide. Not 100% sure about this because it's a forum, but if you want to look.

 
At 5/31/2008 12:51:00 AM, Anonymous M. said...

Thank you very much, Faye. As you can see we have edited the post according to the new rumours.

 
At 6/04/2008 01:31:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, I just thought i would point out on that Digital Spy forum, they're now saying that Rosalind Halstead is actually going to play Isabella.

 
At 6/04/2008 09:24:00 PM, Anonymous M. said...

Thanks! We have edited the post according to the last rumourology :).

 

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