In which the Editrix’s head explodes
Julie Walters talked a bit about BECOMING JANE in an interview in Digital Spy.
What have you got coming up/out, Julie?
J: Coming out I’ve got the Philip Pullman adaptation of the Ruby in the Smoke, with BIllie Piper, and Harry Potter’s next year, and then a film about Jane Austen, playing her mother. It really is very interesting, cos she was an extraordinary woman, just to be able to survive as a novelist in those days, unmarried, was just unheard of.
*coughMariaEdgeworthcough*
There’s not much to know about her mother, is there?
J: She’s a bit of a writer, had loads of children, eight kids, and they were obviously very keen for her to marry, not to be writing, it’s all about that really, how it happens. A bit like Pride and Prejudice in a sense, you see where the novel came from.
No no no no no NOOOOOOOOOO! ARGH! Make it stop make it stop somebody for the love of Jane make it STOP!
Who’s Jane Austen?
J: Anne Hathaway. And she’s actually amazing at her. She’s a really really good actress.
There’s a saying in IT: no matter how powerful your computer, garbage in, garbage out. She can be Meryl Freaking Streep but if the script is a Made Up Story, and a silly melodramatic one at that, does it matter?
September 13th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
Wow, I wonder how Jane thought up all the material for her other works? Perhaps she experienced them in other lifetimes. It couldn’t be that she had a creative mind?