Emily

Frances O’Connor is in week two of the edit for her debut feature as writer-director, “Emily,” which brings to life the world of author Emily Brontë in the years leading up to the creation of her seminal novel “Wuthering Heights.” Variety speaks to O’Connor about the film, which has been pre-sold by Embankment Films to multiple major territories.

[...] About 10 years ago, a love of Emily Brontë led her to start writing a script about the author’s life. “She’s a very inspirational character, but we know so little about her,” she says. “And there are certain issues that I was interested in exploring about being authentic as a woman, and I felt that’s something that she really speaks to.”

[...] Oliver Jackson-Cohen plays Weightman, Emily’s beau. Jackson-Cohen co-starred with Elisabeth Moss in Universal’s hit “The Invisible Man” and is best known for his leading role in Netflix’s “The Haunting” saga. He is shortly to be seen in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter” and in “Mr Malcolm’s List.”

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