Would I care to join Mr. Hurt for dinner? Production on “Michael” was wrapping up, he was about to leave town and — oh yes — his new movie, “Jane Eyre,” was about to be released in theaters. A date was set at the dining room of the Four Seasons Hotel, just across Town Lake from the Statesman’s newsroom. [....]
With the exception of that brief interruption, he continued chattering, mostly about “Jane Eyre” and his interpretation of the moody, broody Mr. Rochester (opposite Charlotte Gainsbourg). I remember few specifics, except for his revelation that he habitually took on a “spirit animal” for every role he played. For Rochester in “Jane Eyre,” he said, it was a crow. (Ann Hornaday)
Stuff (New Zealand) interviews director and actor Lyndee-Jane Rutherford whose play
Miss Brontë runs March 22-26 at BATS Theatre.
What is the production you are involved with, and how did it come about?
I’m the director and co-creator of Miss Brontë. Mel Dodge approached me years ago to be involved. I jumped at the chance given Mel is an incredible performer and writer. Miss Brontë premiered at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2013. It went on to do a season at Circa Theatre, and it toured Australia in 2016. We even toured Australia with Mel’s ten-month-old! We are re-imagining the piece, so we can tour it in New Zealand. Mel and I also worked together on Rants in the Dark adapted from Emily Writes’ book. Mel and I were two of the writers of Rants in the Dark, and I also directed it. [...]
This show promises to reveal something about Charlotte Brontë, can you give us a clue?
It’s pretty hard to believe there was a time when women were not allowed to write and that Charlotte and her sisters had to use male pseudonyms. It’s also really hard to believe that the Brontë sisters, single and only with each other's company, wrote about love, passion, desire, domestic violence and even addiction. Our show promises to delve into Charlotte’s relationship with her French professor. Was it a crush? Or was it an affair? Or was it just a meeting of the minds? Charlotte’s letters to her professor were ripped up and burned. The professor’s wife found the letters and sewed them back together. They are in the British Museum. Did her professor give her the inspiration for Jane Eyre, one of the greatest love stories ever written? (André Chumko)
Financial Times reviews the book
Truly Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the Romance of the Century by Stephen Galloway.
After admiring each other on the stage, they fell in love during the filming of Fire Over England. Their nascent passion engenders Galloway’s most novelettish prose: “Hands, lips, limbs reached for each other with an urgency neither could control.” They were obliged to restrain themselves when they travelled to Hollywood for their breakthrough roles: Olivier in Wuthering Heights, Leigh in Gone with the Wind; although, when news of their affair finally broke, it didn’t have the disastrous reputational impact that producers and publicists had feared. (Michael Arditti)
"Me and my girlfriend read East of Eden out loud, like cover to cover," Stewart says on EW's latest Awardist podcast, instantly upping the ante for your Zoom book club. "She had never read it before," the actor says in reference to screenwriter Dylan Meyer (to whom she is engaged), "and it's kind of like my Bible. It's like a sacred text for me. Reading is a personal experience. You do it alone typically, and I was like, 'Dude, we should do this together, like every single word out loud.'"
Sounds romantic, and Stewart concurs. "Honestly, we're going to do one book a year now," she adds, mentioning that the pair also shared a close read of Wuthering Heights. (Stewart insisted on doing all of Cathy's lines: "I'm a control freak.")
"You cry together," she explains. "That's the cool thing about sitting in a movie theater with everyone. You go, like, 'Look, I know I'm emotional right now, but I just feel way more emotional because we're all here crying.'" (Joshua Rothkopf)
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