EmmaMackey: 'It’s an homage to the Brontë’s life in the books that they read and the environment in which they lived was very gothic.'
Christobel Hastings is Stylist's Entertainment Editor whose specialist interests include pop culture, LGBTQ+ identity and lore.Sex Education
“That’s just my face, it moves a lot!” Mackey laughs. “There’s a lot going on.” If you’re a fan of traditional literary biopics, this should be enough to tell you that actor-turned-director Frances O’Connor’s new film is not going to stay faithful to the facts. “Usually there are rules. We are told that there are rules in filmmaking. And I don’t remember ever thinking, “fuck, it’s my close up and I’ve got to sit here and do this,” Mackey enthuses. “I was left freedom in those moments”.
The mystery shrouding Emily Brontë is used by O’Connor to imagine the author as a woman ahead of her time. The shyest of the siblings, Emily was cruelly branded “the strange one” by villagers in Haworth, Yorkshire. But despite a lack of historical evidence to suggest that the writer ever had a lover, the film imagines that Emily had all-consuming affair with William Weightman , a real parish curate who worked alongside her widower clergyman father Patrick .
The illicit liaison certainly has a transformative effect upon Emily in the film, and it’s easy to see how her relationship could have inspired the characters of Cathy and Heathcliffe in. Mackey says she loves the confidence and “ferociousness” Emily gains through the affair, which is brilliantly explored through French lessons that turn into highly-charged sparring sessions.
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