“We wanted her to feel like a modern woman in that time.” Shalom Brune-Franklin, the British-Australian star of FXNetworks' 'Great Expectations,' opens up to yosoymichael about bringing Charles Dickens’ Estella to life.
in high school, though as she recalls, it was against her will. At the time, she would have rather been reading something “cooler.” But oh, how time changes a person. A decade later, after being cast as Estella in a splashy FX production of the famed Charles Dickens novel, she picked the book back up and found that she loved it. Of course, there’s also the fact that Dickens, as she now describes him, is a “genius.
BRUNE-FRANKLIN: It’s funny how she’s the one that everyone loves, isn’t it? I don’t know why. I love her as well, but she’s everyone’s favorite. Everyone I talk to is like, “I love Estella.” I’m like, “Really?”BRUNE-FRANKLIN: Honestly, it was the same old. Got the audition, only the sides, didn’t get a script yet. And I saw the team on the email and I was like, “Oh, this is a dream audition.” This team made “Taboo,” they made “A Christmas Carol.” And I love both of those shows.
BRUNE-FRANKLIN: Honestly, I was terrified of it. We romanticize it so much. And those women feel so far away from me. I felt like, as a modern woman now, something about that was really hard to tap into. But then I had this really good conversation with my friend and he was just like, “These were the same human beings as us. They experienced the same things. They were still just people.” I think sometimes when you see the extravagance of a period drama, you forget that.
BRUNE-FRANKLIN: It was incredible. She’s everything you would expect her to be and so much more. She’s the nicest person ever. And she’s so effortlessly talented and she makes everything look so easy and is such a gracious and lovely human being at the same time. And she’s so funny. She’s hilarious, and I love that humor in Miss Havisham, that wickedness. I just love how playful and evil it is. I love those scenes where we go at each other.
CUBY: Yes. You and Pip, played by Fionn Whitehead, have this relationship that’s both playful but also sad. How did you and Fionn establish that chemistry? It’s such a complicated balance.
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