In the context of “Emily,” however, Weightman is key to understanding her. Although historians concur that Anne Brontë - and possibly Charlotte - fancied Weightman, there is no evidence that Emily did. In the film, O’Connor gives Emily a passionate affair with William Weightman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), a young curate in the local parish. Her most essential sources were “The Brontë Myth” by Lucasta Miller and “The Brontës” by Juliet Barker the Brontë Parsonage Museum also offered research and insight. While writing the script, O’Connor read every book she could find. The film, opening in Los Angeles on Friday, stars Emma Mackey as Emily, and draws on both historical fact and creative imagining. A lot of women feel like that or have felt like that.” I let my research be in different avenues and then I used those elements to craft a story that is about who she is - somebody who had a very authentic voice but didn’t really fit in. “She did the research, she let her imagination go to these deep, dark places and then this work came out.
“I wrote this the way Emily wrote ‘Wuthering Heights,’” O’Connor explains of the film, which is impressionistic and moody. Instead of making a literal biopic, though, O’Connor thought there would be more truth in a dramatized version of the writer’s life. Years later, as the actor began to consider what sorts of stories she might want to tell, O’Connor returned to Brontë. O’Connor’s interest in bringing Brontë to the screen dates back to the late 1990s, when she was shooting “Mansfield Park.” During a break in production, O’Connor toured the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, England, and felt something “activate” in herself. But it’s this enigmatic quality that makes her the perfect inspiration for a film - most recently, writer-director Frances O’Connor’s “Emily.” Because of her reclusive nature, relatively little is known about the poet and author, who died at age 30.
Despite the vast amount of scholarship that’s been produced about the Brontë sisters, Emily Brontë, the author of “Wuthering Heights,” remains something of a mystery.
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