Tom Hollander Joins Invisible Lady

Rob Fiennes' Dickens biopic The Charles Dickens bi-centenary is constantly on the fling interesting projects at us, like Mr Smallweed hurling cushions at his wife. Together with BBC and BFI seasons and Mike Newell's Great Anticipation, Rob Fiennes is pointing The Invisible Lady, by which he'll also take part in the author. Just revealed to become joining him is Tom Hollander, who'll be playing Dickens' friend and frequent collaborator Wilkie Collins.Calling The Invisible Lady a "Dickens biopic" is helpful shorthand, it ironically plays into just what the it and also the film are about: Dickens' secret mistress Ellen "Nelly" Ternan, and her airbrushing from his official history.Ternan would be a theatre actress (annually more youthful than Dickens' oldest daughter) with whom Dickens carried out cheating during the last 13 many years of his existence. As part of a less-than-respected profession, Nelly's social position was minimal, and Dickens visited inordinate measures to help keep the connection from the public eye. Exposure as Dickens' mistress might have introduced the actress utter disgrace and ruin throughout his lifetime, but she did achieve some status after Dickens' dying, despite their relationship getting at that time emerged.Expect a colourful depiction around the globe from the Victorian theatre, hiding an excoriating look at nineteenth-century social mores. Felicity Johnson is playing Nelly, with Kristin Scott Thomas as Dickens' lengthy-suffering wife Catherine. Holland, once we stated, is Wilkie Collins, most well-known because the author from the Moonstone and also the Lady In Whitened, but additionally an abundant playwrite. He co-written The Frozen Deep with Dickens, also it was that fateful production which Dickens and Nelly first met.The script is as simple as Shame's author Abi Morgan, and it is according to Claire Tomalin's book, first released in 1991. Shooting begins in April.The Invisible Lady will come in paperback from Penguin, and Tomalin's newer Charles Dickens: A Existence is presently still only in hardcover from Viking.