11/8/2023 0 Comments Felicity jones invisible woman![]() ![]() Interestingly, she pretended to be a lot younger than she actually was, so when she met George Wharton Robinson, she was in her late thirties, and was pretending to be twenty-three, and this was a way almost of reliving her life, really. At the same time as being in love with this man, it was not a straightforward sort of airy-fairy love affair. ![]() As soon as he’s dead, she’s off, she goes to Italy, she goes to see her sisters, she uses the money he left her to have this incredibly independent existence, and that, for me, I felt, signified that in many ways her relationship with Dickens was somewhat of a burden for her. When he dies, it’s fascinating – she doesn’t spend years mourning him. So I feel like she made a huge sacrifice by being with him. But at the same time, that was completely – just at the time, that was an impossibility. JONES: I think she would have wanted him to have divorced his wife – he separated from Catherine but didn’t divorce her – and to have married her. On what Nelly actually wanted for herself… I think they were equals intellectually, actually, despite their age difference. I think they connected in a really fundamental way. ![]() I think after she comes into his life, I think his female characters become far more three-dimensional than they ever are before her, even if they’re pretty sketchy, his female characters, before her presence. ![]() JONES: Well, I feel like Nelly had a profound influence on Dickens. On the relationship between Nelly and Charles … I mean, she loved and appreciated his work and his writing, but there was an absolute authority in her, a natural authority, so I hope that comes across, that’s what I wanted to bring out. What I loved about her was her seriousness, in a way, and that she wasn’t this sort of giggly, sycophantic girl. And I felt like my job was trying to portray that conflict. That was so antithetical to her identity, but at the same time, she fell in love with someone who had a very particular way of living, and so it was this battle between her love for him and wanting to be with him, but at the same time trying to attain her own dignity and identity. I don’t think she wanted to be a kind of floozy mistress. I think for Nelly there was a real conflict. Coming to the film, I was new to the background. I knew that there was some gossip about him having a closeness to his sister-in-law, but that was kind of the extent of it. I didn’t know that he’d had an affair with Nelly Ternan. Obviously, I knew his work and his books, but I didn’t know about his private life. On what she knew about Charles Dickens before beginning work on THE INVISIBLE WOMAN …įELICITY JONES: In England, he’s so ubiquitous, so you feel like you know him. DOCTOR WHO fans will also know her as Robina Redmond from the 2008 episode “The Unicorn and the Wasp.”Īt a round-table group interview for THE INVISIBLE WOMAN, Jones gives her thoughts on playing the film’s title character. Her credits include LIKE CRAZY, CEMETERY JUNCTION (which also featured Fiennes), THE TEMPEST, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, HYSTERIA and the upcoming THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 and THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING. Jones, originally from Birmingham, England, has a thriving feature film career. The bulk of the movie is about how the eventually intimate relationship unfolds between young Nelly and the much older, famous and married author in 1800sEngland. The film has Jones playing Ternan from the age of eighteen, when she meets Charles Dickens, played by director Fiennes, through her thirties. “I am the visible woman,” declares Jones with a laugh. THE INVISIBLE WOMAN movie poster | ©2013 Sony Pictures ClassicsĪlthough THE INVISIBLE WOMAN is the title of the new feature film directed by Ralph Fiennes and scripted by Abi Morgan from Claire Tomalin’s book, that’s now how we see its female protagonist Nelly Ternan, played by Felicity Jones. ![]()
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