Wuthering Heights is my kind of thing

The Evening Standard publishes an interview with Charlotte Riley, Catherine Earnshaw in the new Wuthering Heights TV series which will be broadcast next January on the US (and maybe in April on the UK). Nothing really very exciting is said but it's nice to see that the promotion is beginning:

New Heights.
By Andy Barker. Photographer: Oliver Pearce. Stylist: Nicky Yates

Charlotte Riley is a girl in a hurry. Here she models romantic party dresses worthy of a Brontë heroine...
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She was Anya in The Cherry Orchard with Diana Rigg and Maureen Lipman at the Chichester Festival Theatre; appeared in George Gently, the BBC crime series with Martin Shaw; and is going to star in Wuthering Heights as Cathy Earnshaw with Tom Hardy (Stuart: A Life Backwards; RocknRolla) as her Heathcliff on ITV early next year. The production is directed by Coky Giedroyc, who also directed Oliver Twist on TV and is the sister of Mel and Sue comedienne Mel Giedroyc. Charlotte revelled in the filming: 'It's my kind of thing. I love love stories, particularly tragic ones. People don't love like that any more. Their relationship exists in isolation in this desolate place and it can only exist like that because of the setting.' As is perfectly clear from her postcard to us, Charlotte maintains a charming enthusiasm about her good fortune. On getting the Wuthering Heights role, she has said: 'I was doing The Cherry Orchard when I found out I'd got the part. I rang my mum and dad. It was a beautiful sunny day outside and I was jumping up and down like a big kid. I was just so excited with the potential of the part.' (...)
She is certainly well-versed in Brontë by now, having just finished shooting the melodrama in West Yorkshire. But now she's back in West Kensington sharing a flat with another actor while waiting for her next big role. She will surely not be resting for long.

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