INT: Is Dorothea a difficult part to cast and how did you go about it?

ANTHONY (DIRECTOR): Dorothea was a very difficult part to cast because there's some quality in her which you can't act, I mean it's a sort of quality of, I suppose it's saintliness in a way, I mean it's um, it's someone who's got this burning desire to make the world better um, against all odds and I mean I think she's very connected with George Elliot's feeling of frustration at being a woman and um, facing what was expected and allowed of women in the period she was born. Um, and um she also is meant to be a very classically beautiful Dorothea I mean the, these painters talk about her as looking like the Madonna. Er, so I mean you know I mean Juliet seemed very, very right for it when she came in. Strangely, I mean I'd met her very early on, I thought she was rather modern, that her delivery in her kind of way of acting was rather modern and she

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