![]() In a March 2019 interview with The Telegraph, Lorraine Anning, a relative of Mary Anning, said of the decision: “To be honest, it doesn’t matter. Which isn’t to say that Lee’s decision was met entirely with backlash. There’s no historical indication that the pair were more than close friends, but Lee has simply done what many filmmakers have done, imagining an inner life for someone who didn’t have a very public one. And I wanted somebody that felt like an equal.” He added: “Charlotte felt like an equal and elevating person for Mary to have a relationship with.” It’s important to note that Lee does acknowledge the film is a fictionalized reading of Murchison and Anning’s relationship. “It felt that it wouldn’t be equal that she would still be owned by a man. “To me, that didn’t feel like it would be a good relationship for her, with a man,” Lee says. Anning never married and had no documented relationships with men, and for much of her life, Anning’s work was co-opted and appropriated by men. And while this queer reading of their friendship was deemed controversial by some who say it’s a historically inaccurate attempt to sensationalize Anning’s personal life, British writer and director Francis Lee told FLARE in a press junket that it made sense for the movie-and for Anning’s life. While Anning and Murchison were real people, and friends IRL, there’s no documentation of a romance between them. ![]() Ammonite follows the story of Mary Anning (played by Winslet), a 19-century palaeontologist in Lyme Regis, England who’s known for several groundbreaking palaeontology discoveries, and her romantic relationship with the upper-class Charlotte Murchison (played by Ronan). If a film has either Ronan or Winslet in it, it’s pretty much guaranteed to be gold, which is why the duo’s pairing in the recently released Ammonite, is so freakin’ exciting-because it’s pretty much the March Madness match-up of Tinseltown.Īnd fans eager to see the two actors together on screen won’t be disappointed. The actors are powerhouses on their own-with both stars racking up *numerous* Academy Award nominations and wins, and wowing audiences with their stunning performances in acclaimed films like Lady Bird, Little Women and Brooklyn, in Ronan’s case, and Little Children, The Reader and a wee indie film called Titanic, for Winslet. It has given us Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, Ryan Murphy and Sarah Paulson, and now Winslet and Saoirse Ronan.
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