Miss Havisham is an iconic character over here in Britain: an embittered spinster who sits in her mouldering mansion still wearing the wedding dress she wore when she was jilted at the altar; she has trained her adopted daughter Estella to break men’s hearts just as her heart was broken.There is one additional photo at Deadline. I never imagined I would get so old that Miss Havisham looks as appealing as Estella...
Bonham Carter co-stars opposite Ralph Fiennes as escaped convict Magwitch. Producer Stephen Woolley tells me the Oscar nominee is playing Miss Havisham at the same age she is in Dickens novel — previous incarnations by Charlotte Rampling, Anne Bancroft and, most memorably, Martita Hunt in David Lean’s version played her much older.
Because you're going to look it up anyway, Estella's part is played by Holliday Grainger (think Lucrezia in The Borgias)
Oh, the dress, the dress! It should get an Oscar all by itself. It's just magnificent, especially in the photo at Deadline.
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You have odd taste. She looked better in the later Harry potter movies...despite an outfit that didn't hide a pregnancy that well in one of them.
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