Greatest Fears

Express features Toby Stephens and the passion he inherited from his mother, Dame Maggie Smith.

"Reading and books were a huge part of my mum’s life. Both my mum and my step-dad (playwright and screenwriter Beverley Cross) read voraciously,” he smiles. “So it’s always been part of my life. And now more than ever, because our attention spans are so scattered by technology, it’s really important.”

Which explains in part why the 56-year-old, whose roles have included Bond villain Gustav Graves opposite Pierce Brosnan in Die Another Day, Mr Rochester in the BBC’s Jane Eyre and, most recently, lawyer Archie Moore in The Split, as well as Poseidon in the Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, is so passionate about Give A Book. (Matt Nixson)

As for the rest, it's all highlights from the British Vogue interview with Margot Robbie: The Guardian, The Standard, NME, The Independent and a long, long etc.

IndieWire thinks that some of her comments 'Confirm ‘Wuthering Heights’ Fans’ Greatest Fears'.

That doesn’t mean that the director and star own anyone an apology, or that they don’t have the right to deviate as much as they want from the book. It’s not as if the previous film versions have been exactly faithful — with many of them, going back to the 1939 rendition starring Laurence Olivier, even cutting out half the plot. And Hollywood adaptations of novels take liberties as a rule, as evidenced by Guillermo del Toro’s portrayal of “Frankenstein,” which includes new characters and major plot points, along with a somehow alluring Elordi in the lead role.  

But it is worth saying that there’s a definite ideological divide between the Hollywood powerhouses and the dedicated fanbase of Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights.” Anyone who has read the novel knows that “Wuthering Heights” is not a romance: It’s a warning. And marketing that as “the greatest love story of all time,” as the film’s promotional materials have, doesn’t do justice to its author’s brilliance — with all due respect to Nicholas Sparks. (Elaina Patton)