She was authentic in that way, and she had no blueprint, there were no communities. She never wavered from wanting to, in her words again, "love, and only love the fairer sex." She felt like it was her god-given nature to do that. Sally described her to me as having a very healthy opinion of herself, a very healthy opinion of life, excited by life, wanted to live life to the full. and she had to be larger than life, she had to be a presence that anyone who knows the diaries can feel it when they read it off the page, and I really wanted to encapsulate that on screen. And she was fiercely intelligent, so we wanted to tell the story of her intelligence through her physicality as well, which is kind of the big hand gestures and the tapping she checks out of scenes before other people do, because she's already on to the next thing. So by the time we meet her, she's been wearing black for 16 years. She always wore black, in mourning for an ex-girlfriend that she lost to a man, to a marriage. She had a low voice, she looked like an oddity. And there's pieces of information that we have - she walked fast, and she walked upright. A lot of the words that I speak, Sally has used, not verbatim but she's really worked them into the way she writes her dialogue. She never wavered from wanting to, in her words again, 'love, and only love the fairer sex.' She felt like it was her god-given nature to do that.Ī lot of the work that Sally's done over the eight episodes are direct from the diaries. But the experience of that really allowed her to get into my bones every single day on set. we got to film in Shibden Hall, which was her actual house, so the whole experience was magical I felt like she was with us every step of the way. We'd get an email, and it was kind of like live, as we were filming scenes in the end, where we were getting pieces of information that had never been seen before. the code itself, parts of the diary still hadn't been decoded, so it was being decoded especially for us as we filmed, which was really exciting. I was able to visit Halifax library and actually take out one of Anne Lister's original diaries and read that for myself, which was a real emotional experience, because I'm touching the paper which she had her hands all over, and Sally was able to read the code to me, over my shoulder, which was again extraordinary. but with this, both me and felt like I was a work in progress, and I was going to have to put a lot of work in. Sometimes when you get a part, you're almost cooked, you're ready to go. ![]() ![]() "So I just feel like this is the right time to tell her story in the full-bodied way that it needs to be told." Suranne Jones stars as Anne Lister - she says it's become possible to tell Lister's story now, because we finally have the language to discuss gender and sexuality more openly. The HBO adaptation looks at Lister's relationship Ann Walker and her defiant embrace of her sexual orientation. Those explicit diaries remained a secret until the 1980s - and in 2011 they were named by UNESCO as a pivotal document in British history. Eventually she would live openly with her neighbor Ann Walker as a couple. HBO's new period drama, Gentleman Jack, is set in the 1830s and tells the extraordinary story of Anne Lister: landowner, businesswoman, mountaineer, and sometimes called "the first modern lesbian." Lister came from a wealthy family in Halifax, England, and began recording her love affairs with women in coded entries in her diary. ![]() Suranne Jones stars as Anne Lister - sometimes called the first modern lesbian - in Gentleman Jack.
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