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Ammonite sex11/4/2022 ![]() ![]() She very rarely allows herself to just acknowledge that Charlotte did just put her hand on her shoulder and she did just leave it there for a couple of extra seconds, you know? Those moments are really powerfully felt in the film because they are used as language and there are so few of them. And I think you do feel it all the more because, as you say, she very rarely smiles. So to see her softer side through the connection with Charlotte and the joy that that brought to her was really very special. And it also meant that we were allowed to access the more feminine side of her that was kept away from her work that she almost didn’t – I think – dare herself to explore or experience, because that just wasn’t how she was emotionally facing the world. You know Mary had that ability and pairing her with a woman on an intimate level felt right, it felt worthy of her in many ways. Because she was dealt such a rough hand by a patriarchal world and I found that really it was sort of an exceptional experience in a way, to just indulge in standing in standing in truth like that. ![]() Well, it was very empowering to play someone who wasn’t defined by men, who wouldn’t allow herself to be defined by men. What was that like for you, is that something that struck you as feeling different? In Mary’s case it was the work that was important and I think the first time we see your character even smile is on the beach. It also struck me watching it how rare it is to see women in that time period who aren’t prioritising being ‘likeable’ or liked. And to me that that’s very, very powerful. I love that in Ammonite you see these two women come together through the work, through the physical labour. She was tired, yes absolutely, but somehow she still did her work and loved her work. You know, she wasn’t resentful, she wasn’t bitter. So in spite of that, she still carried on. ‘The world has treated me so abominably ill’ she says. But in one of them she talks about being dealt such an ill hand by the world. ![]() And there were tantalisingly few for me to access because they just don’t exist. Some were copied, but every now and then she would write little personal anecdotes. She didn’t keep diaries but she had these books that she would call her ‘day book’ or her ‘workbooks’ or something, that she would write a lot of prayers and poetry in. #Ammonite sex how toSo to know how to love and be loved and just communicate on a very basic level with people socially was something that I believe didn’t come easy to her. So you can imagine what it must have been like for Mary to live in this quite isolated world where she wasn’t getting much love. She was raised by her mother who was in a permanent state of grief – she’d lost eight children while Mary was alive and two before Mary was born. She was taught by her father who was an amateur fossil hunter, he died when she was only 11 years old. ![]() I admired her enormously because she was a self-taught, working-class hero who lived a very harsh life which was filled with struggle. ![]()
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