I don’t think she was necessarily gay, maybe she was bi, but she had this obsession with this woman. And apparently, someone told me this, it’s actually Daphne’s kind of disguised passion for her-I’m gonna get this story wrong, and you’re gonna have to look it up-but it was her, she as Philip, she was passionately obsessed with her publisher’s wife or her publisher’s sister? And it was about her passion for a woman. It’s an interesting book because it’s a woman writing about a man, writing it from the point of view of a man who’s in love with a woman. I did read it before we the film, but I hadn’t read any du Maurier. Glamour: Had you read the book before you started the film? RW: They’re both women that definitely don’t just want to be possessions, which is kind of a…which is OK by me! Glamour: It reminded me a little bit of your character in Agora (a criminally underseen 2009 film about mathematician philosophers in ancient Rome), who is also very…she doesn’t want to necessarily get married just because someones pursuing her.

She’s not wildly transgressive, but she’s transgressive enough for her time.

Set in the eighteenth century, it's startling. If her character were in the 1960s and sexually free, it would not be that interesting. I mean, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote about feminism, I guess, in the nineteenth century, but it's extremely radical. RW: Yes, well, almost, almost impossible, but not quite. Glamour: Yes, it just struck me as being sort of unusual… She has all of these very modern ideas for a woman of her time. She doesn’t have any sense of sexual shame she doesn’t want to just be a wife and a possession. She believes she’s sexually free and can sleep with whom she wants to without feeling any guilt. RW: As you know, the book was written in the mid-twentieth century, so she has a post-Freudian, early feminist take on being a woman, which is kind of startling in the mid-nineteenth century.

She wants to have her own agency, to not only be controlled by the men in her life. Glamour: It's something of a surprisingly modern character.

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