Julia ormond howards end series#
The aesthetics in the series have been miraculously planned with so much detail in order for it to not only be authentic to the period but to tell its own story, director Hettie Macdonald approached the script with exactly this thought process. Most of the dialogue is right out of the book and the rest also from the book and movies I have seen, Monty Python… ” I love the period and just love the book. There is a tremendous internal narrative for Margaret’s character in the novel that is quite a challenge to put on the screen. To make those things come forward in a dramatisation was a really interesting challenge. “It was somewhat of a challenge to adapt a story with characters that had such a rich internal life, but the story is equally focused on the external world that they are living in and the changes in society investigated in the story. As an American adapting a very British story, Lonergan detailed during a Q and A at the preview, that it came with its challenges but his love for the book and the period in which it is set made it a joy to make. In the absence of their late parents, the sisters’ loving but interfering Aunt Juley (Tracey Ullman) tries to keep the young ladies and their brother Tibby (Alex Lawther) on the straight and narrow.įrom a preview of the first episode, it’s evident that Lonergan has given the story his stamp of simple yet detailed beauty which transfixes with effortless wit and inquisitiveness for audiences who may know the book well but opens up the dialogue for those yet to discover the authentic story. Meanwhile, Margaret’s passionate and capricious younger sister Helen Schlegel (Philippa Coulthard) takes up the cause of Leonard Bast (Joseph Quinn) a young bank clerk who falls on hard times at work and at home with his partner Jacky (Rosalind Eleazar). Set in Edwardian London and the fictional Howards End in Henley-On-Thames, Margaret Schlegel (Hayley Atwell) an intelligent, idealistic young woman is courted by the older Henry Wilcox (Matthew Macfadyen), a self-made conservative businessman after his wife Ruth Wilcox (Julia Ormond) dies unexpectedly and he becomes the owner of Howards End.
It is a story that is as relevant and timely now in our ‘modern world’ in the fight for female empowerment as it was at the beginning of the 20th century.Ģ5 years after the film, which starred Emma Thompson’s Oscar-winning performance as Margaret, and Helena Bonham Carter as her sister Helen Schlegel, Manchester By the Sea’s Kenneth Lonergan has adapted the script for the small screen with BAFTA-winning director Hettie Macdonald taking on directorial duties for the lavishly luxurious four part mini-series which is to air on BBC One on Sunday the 12th of November. Forster’s phenomenal masterpiece Howards End cemented the transition of two freethinking, independent and tenacious sisters into class relations and divides as one of the best pieces of British literature.
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