He found that a bit weird," laughs Wilson. "I called Toby and he went quiet when I told him I was playing his mom. She finds that amusing because it's Smith's son, Toby Stephens, who plays her sexy yet moody Rochester, who is haunted by his past love life.
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She was talking as she was riding in a car on her way back from rehearsals for the TV drama "Capturing Mary," in which she plays the young version of a journalist portrayed by Maggie Smith. She earned very favorable reviews when the "Jane Eyre" miniseries aired last year in England, and is now in great demand. Wilson, meanwhile, sounded quite lovable and lively herself over the phone from London. Every young girl has been through that stage of life of feeling completely unattractive and no one is going to love them." That was something I felt was important to bring out, because I think one of the things people just love about the book is how Jane's a sort of Everywoman. "One of the qualities I really liked about her was you look at her one way and she's very beautiful and then you look at her another way and she can look quite plain at times. So casting someone with a feisty spirit in the title role was particularly important to White, who discovered Wilson, now 25, via the traditional audition process. "I think it's the first time a woman has ever done the adaptation and I think that's a central thing to this piece, because its heart is absolutely centered on Jane, whereas a lot of them might have been called `Rochester,'" White stresses. The director and screenwriter of the latest version are both women, as well as something of British literary-adaptation experts: Susanna White, whose credits include six episodes of the Charles Dickens' miniseries "Bleak House," and Sandy Welch, who scripted the Dickens miniseries "Our Mutual Friend."
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The last TV movie came in 1997, starring Samantha Morton and Ciaran Hinds. The most recent feature version was released in 1996, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and William Hurt.
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The best-known film version was made in 1944, starring Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles, who played Eyre's employer and eventual true love, Edward Rochester. The story of a young Victorian governess _ who has to overcome abandonment, poverty, cruelty, emotional betrayal and something scary in the attic before finally finding true love _ first hit the screen in the silent era. 21 and 28 in the United States on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre. "Sometimes she can come across a bit pious and you want to sort of kick her bum and just say, `Get on with it.'" says the young British actress, not long out of drama school, whose portrayal can be seen in a new adaptation of the oft-filmed romance novel.
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Ruth Wilson isn't very Jane Eyre-like in her opinion of the demure Charlotte Bronte character she plays on TV.