Jane Eyre on the BBC
Since Cablecom now officially carries both BBC1 and BBC2 on the digital cable package, for which we have to pay mucho, I feel a lot freer to comment on the marvelous BBC lineup!
The first part of the new Jane Eyre was quite good. In the first part, when the little girl playing Jane came on screen, I thought "wow she looks so much like Georgie Henley". I didn't realise until the closing credits came up (since I wasn't paying attention during the opening credits) that it is Georgie Henley. (She is Lucy in the Chronicles of Narnia). Very good child actress, and still pulling off a convincing British accent.
The actress who plays the grown up Jane, Ruth Wilson, has the most amazing fog-colored eyes. I wasn't as taken by Toby Stevens as Rochester though. It's pretty hard to surpass Orson Wells' portrayal of Rochester in any case.
The interesting thing is that BBC4 is going to be airing an adaptation of Wild Sargasso Sea, which is about the mad first Mrs. Rochester, which was written by Jean Rhys in the 1960s. Should be interesting to see if there's much connection between the two productions. It would have been great if the same actor had played Rochester in both but doesn't seem to be the case, unfortunately.
The first part of the new Jane Eyre was quite good. In the first part, when the little girl playing Jane came on screen, I thought "wow she looks so much like Georgie Henley". I didn't realise until the closing credits came up (since I wasn't paying attention during the opening credits) that it is Georgie Henley. (She is Lucy in the Chronicles of Narnia). Very good child actress, and still pulling off a convincing British accent.
The actress who plays the grown up Jane, Ruth Wilson, has the most amazing fog-colored eyes. I wasn't as taken by Toby Stevens as Rochester though. It's pretty hard to surpass Orson Wells' portrayal of Rochester in any case.
The interesting thing is that BBC4 is going to be airing an adaptation of Wild Sargasso Sea, which is about the mad first Mrs. Rochester, which was written by Jean Rhys in the 1960s. Should be interesting to see if there's much connection between the two productions. It would have been great if the same actor had played Rochester in both but doesn't seem to be the case, unfortunately.
Comments
Still, enjoyable first episode, and the nightime scenes were nice'n'spooky.