The film star, 45, explained that a slew of cruel comments tampered with her impression of beauty and she lamented the fact she was dubbed outspoken when she tried to defend herself.
Francis Lee, the director of Ammonite, said he wanted to give Dorset palaeontologist Mary Anning something to elevate her because her work was overlooked by men.
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Ammonite (R16, 117mins) Directed by Francis Lee Two of the finest actors of their respective generations. A director whose debut stunned with its raw intimacy, intensity and ability to capture the rougher edges of the British countryside. Working together with material that combines a biopic of a previously unheralded scientist with an achingly romantic tale of social strata-shattering love. How could
Ammonite be anything but a sweeping success? And yet something doesn’t quite fully resonate here, the way it did with Francis Lee’s first film
God’s Own Country. It’s true that hasn’t been helped here by the distributors’ bizarre decision to tease it before Christmas, only to wait until now to release it. In the meantime, the somewhat thematically similar (combining scientific discovery and closeted hearts), but dramatically different