Surgery and Jane Eyre

Wealth of Geeks discusses castings originally hated by fans.

Usually biopics, book adaptations, and prominent characters with which fans are familiar spur quite a bit of discourse. Casting directors are harshly scrutinized for their decisions as fans struggle to envision certain actors in roles they were excited about seeing, and might have had others in mind to play. 

Take Ariana Grande, for instance. She was initially criticized for being cast as Glinda in the Wicked movies by fans who couldn't imagine her in the role, despite getting high praise and Oscar buzz for her performance. Jacob Elordi‘s casting as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights also raised eyebrows, as many thought he wasn't right for the Emily Brontë adaptation, in which he stars alongside Margot Robbie. (Courtney Ciandella)

Morning Star features the exhibition You Are My Kindred Spirit by Maud Sulter at Tramway, Glasgow.

Uncompromising photomontages that collide visions of European civility with African sculpture. Videos of surgery performed on the artist, stitched together with footage from an early Jane Eyre film. Monochrome images of the artist’s early life and extended family, captured from old photographs with the impressions of the passage of time preserved in them. And Sulter’s own voice echoes throughout, in readings of her groundbreaking poetry. [...]

Likewise, the installation Plantation (1994) combines prints depicting Sulter’s body, marked out for surgery, and a video splicing a graphic recording of that surgery with Robert Stevenson’s 1943 film of Jane Eyre. Her experience is to be read in some sense as the racialised and marginalised Caribbean wife of Mr Rochester, Bertha Mason – the novel’s “madwoman in the attic.” (Joe Jackson)