| masterofmystery | 05-21-2012 11:19 PM |
Bonnie Wright to star in "Shakespeare's Daughter", talks future projects at Cannes
Earlier this year, at the opening of Warner Bros Studio Tour London - The Making of Harry Potter, actress Bonnie Wright commented on an American role she would be taking on this year.
The Telegraph, who spoke to Bonnie this week at the Cannes Film Festival, revealed that her first American role will be in a feature called Shakespeare's Daughter. According to Elemental Cinema, the film will costar American actors Tom Sizemore, Eric Roberts, and Chevy Chase, and will focus on "Eugene Devlin, a once famous, now reclusive poet, [who] searches through his past looking for redemption and peace." The film is slated for a 2013 release, and currently it is unknown who Bonnie will play.
While at Cannes, Bonnie discussed her projects, Separate We Come, Separate We Go, and In Want of a Wife, in full detail with both The Telegraph and Total Film magazine. Bonnie also attended the IWC and Finch's Quarterly Review Annual Filmmakers Dinner at the French film festival; photos of her are below, as are comments from the former Harry Potter actress on her future films. http://www.snitchseeker.com/gallery/...p_52629fbc.jpg
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On her role in In Want of a Wife:
“I play a character called Lydia, it's set in the late 1700s and she starts as a eloped young daughter of a clergyman. She's eloped with a lieutenant and they go into what you think is a little hotel but she wakes up to find the lieutenant is gone and she’s left there alone and the hotel is actually a brothel.” Wright explains.
“She’s trapped. She has to pay for the night before that she’s spent with the lieutenant, she can’t go back to her father because she’s eloped - it’s basically how she has to turn to prostitution. “
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On her work in Separate We Come, Separate We Go, Bonnie told both publications:
TF: “The place [Dungeness, UK, where the film was shot] has a big connection for me. I spent a lot of time there when I was younger” she revealed.
“I’ve learnt so much from doing that short. I really respond to putting myself out of my own depth and finding my feet. That idea of going for it – there’s nothing else to lose - the story paralleled the process of making it.”
Telegraph: “It’s a journey of enlightenment – a realisation that her life doesn’t end at the end of her street, it’s a whole open world.”
Explaining why she chose Dungeness and Romney Marsh as her location, Wright said: “It’s a very unique area and an amazing stretch of land.
“Romney Marsh is an area where I spent a lot of time when I was a child. Growing up in a city such as London, it’s so confined sometimes that as a child there is no feeling of a horizon, there’s nothing beyond what you know.
“So for me I was so lucky to have that experience of spending a lot of time in open spaces such as Romney Marsh that I was able to gain that feeling of beyond. As a young child I was obsessed with horizons.”
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