![]() Her relationship with Sergeant Troy is so classic.Īnd you can see it a mile off. The naïve, silly things you do when you're growing up, when you like the bad boys and you say the wrong things. Yeah! I think most people can relate to it. Did you relate to that idea of making mistakes when you're young? ![]() She's stubborn and vain, and you can see how she makes all those classic mistakes you make as a girl growing up. And I liked that she's a flawed character as well-that she makes mistakes and she's not perfect. She was a free spirit and impetuous and willful and determined. That was the appeal, that she didn't feel like a buttoned-up Austen character. For a woman written in Victorian Britain she's an incredibly modern character and she doesn't feel like she belongs in that time at all. First of all, you're struck when you read the book by how modern she is. Getty Images What did you like about Bathsheba? Even in Madding Crowd it describes how her face blushes as she talks. ![]() So you're never lost for ideas on how to do something because you've just got a wealth of notion about what your character is doing and how they're feeling and how they're moving. For one scene you see onscreen, there's probably a 20-page part of the book dedicated to that one moment. And the original dialogue in Madding Crowd is so extraordinary that we wanted to put that in as much as possible. Firstly, you want to please the people who are fans of the book-and that includes us as filmmakers and as actors. It was a daily conversation for a number of reasons. When you have a story like this one, how much do you go back to the original book as you're filming? You have a great script, a great cast, and a great director, but you also have this amazing, incredibly rich source material to go back to, which is a brilliant aid when you're playing a character. To have the ability to work on a couple of them, like Madding or The Great Gatsby, it's a really great experience. There's great new writing and I'm excited about doing new writing in the future, but often the great, great classics are really worthy of retelling. I think I've gotten to work on the ones I've loved. I love reading, and there are books I fall in love with. Yeah, I did a lot when I was starting out. What is it that attracts you to those films? You've done so many literary adaptations. The actress called us from London to discuss her love for books, Prada sneakers, and women who learn from their mistakes. She tends to gravitate toward strong, complicated characters and stories that embrace big ideas. It's somewhat familiar territory for the actress, who rose to acclaim in An Education and has since appeared in The Great Gatsby and Never Let Me Go. Mulligan gives the character a sense of spirited liberation even as several love stories unfold. The film adaptation of Thomas Hardy's iconic novel, out May 1, follows Bathsheba Everdene, a woman who takes control of her own fate and refuses to settle down for the sake of settling down. In Far From The Madding Crowd Carey Mulligan embodies a literary heroine who feels distinctly feminist.
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