Albatross (2011)
Like Crazy (2011)
Hysteria (2011)
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2011)
“You” and “Company” Scans
Hello! I have just added scans of Fliss from January’s cover of You, and her 2-page interview from the February edition of Company Magazine. These were scanned exclusively (by me!) for Captivating, so please if you use or repost them, link back to http://felicity-jones.org. Thanks, and enjoy!
Like Crazy’s Felicity Jones: ‘It’s Mild Insanity – Maybe That’s What Love Is’
“She was insane. She writes a book every year cataloguing their relationship, she’s obsessed,” laughs Felicity Jones, the star of poignant romantic drama Like Crazy.
“I’m much more reticent and cautious. It wouldn’t be interesting watching someone being normal and reticent, it is mild insanity, but that’s more entertaining, and maybe that’s what love is.”
Jones is reflecting on the unique experience of playing the part of Anna, the crazily-in-love British student who falls, hard, for Californian carpenter Jacob (Anton Yelchin) during her exchange year. Director Drake Doremus captures on film that bewitching experience of first love where all goes well until practical things like visas, families and other people threaten to prick their romantic bubble.
The film is an intimate, intense affair to experience – was it the same to film? Jones nods vigorously:
“In fact, Drake, Anton and I spent the first week just talking about our experience of relationships, because you want to understand these people, so we had to understand each other first and build them from that…
“For that month, we were immersed in their world. It felt like Anton and I had been married four times and divorced by the end of it, in some ways you go through a relationship, with the crew, quite literally, under the covers with you.
“The idea was to make it as naturalistic as possible,” she goes on. “And the key to that was that we would forget the camera was there, make everything very small, and work from the inside out – you couldn’t do this on stage – the camera was very close, so we had to trust Drake and be as unegotistical as possible, luckily it turned out to be okay.”
It certainly did if critical acclaim is any marker. The film, despite its tiny budget, has taken the industry by storm, garnering a special jury prize at Sundance last year, and a Best Actress award for Jones, something she is delightfully ingenuous about:
“It was more of a bonus than an intention. I didn’t even know there was an award ceremony. I was at home in bed and got a call to say ‘you’ve won the acting award at Sundance’. I started screaming and running around my room.”
Jones is on a roll, after roles in Gervais-Merchant’s Cemetery Junction, bigger-budget comedy Chalet Girl and last year’s well-received Albatross, as well as being named the new face of Italian luxury brand Dolce & Gabanna.
But the actress who made her first mark in children’s TV drama The Worst Witch acknowledges that the acclaim for Like Crazy has been a career turning point.
“Since going to Sundance, I’ve had so many more opportunities. It’s just trying to work with good directors, and obviously when you’ve done something that people have seen, after spending a lot of time trying to convince people of your worth, it’s great to have something to show them.”
This sounds like an older, wiser soul than her whimsical on-screen character Anna talking. But Jones is 27, while Anna starts out as an impetuous 19-year-old:
“I age in the film from 19 to 27. I think when you’re that age, you just do things and don’t think them through.
“I’m far too rational, I think about things for days and am much more indecisive.”
Her eyes widen: “Get on the plane for love? No guy’s worth that… but then where would the entertainment be?”
Felicity Jones is ‘The Invisible Woman’
Felicity Jones is making a name for herself by being an onscreen persona with some serious relationship issues. The 28-year-old actress just earned a Gotham Award for her performance in the indie hit “Like Crazy” and landed the role of one of Howard Hughes’ love interests in Warren Beatty’s biopic of the eccentric millionaire, and now she’s landed another part as a popular historical figure’s main squeeze. The Daily Mail is reporting that she’ll play Charles Dickens’ mistress of 13 years, Nelly Ternan, in an adaptation of the novel “The Invisible Woman.”
Ralph Fiennes will direct the adaptation, and we’re hoping he’ll star in the film as Dickens as well. Fiennes is hot off his well-received directorial debut “Coriolanus,” which is getting an Oscar run in New York and Los Angeles starting today.
Considering the fact Dickens is one of the most well-known authors in the English language, it’s interesting that few films have been made about his life. According to Amazon, “The Invisible Woman” offers the “fullest account to date of Charles Dickens’s secret 13-year romance with actress Ellen “Nelly” Ternan.” Historical sources point at Ternan for being the reason Dickens separated from his wife Catherine, because the latter accidentally received a bracelet meant for Dickens’ mistress. The two never married.
Filming on “The Invisible Woman” is said to start during spring or summer 2012 with BBC films producing. It will likely be released at some point in 2013.
Like Crazy Stills & A New Photoshoot
I have a very exciting update for you today. Firstly, I have added 10 lovely new stills from Like Crazy to our gallery – I am getting more and more excited for this film as the days go by!
This article is also featured in the Daily News, alongside a gorgeous new photo shoot which I have added to our gallery (thanks to fjonesfans for the tip!).
And lastly, W Magazine has feautured a nice short interview with Felicity discussing her role as Anna in Like Crazy:
The story is simple enough: a smitten British exchange student (newcomer Felicity Jones) writes a multi-page letter to her American boy crush (Anton Yelchin), sticks it on the windshield of his car, and first blush love ensues. The camera steeps the viewer in a flutter of gazes, whispers, laughs and oxygen-cutting kisses, all so deliriously addictive that the heroine overstays — and thus violates — her visa in order to spend the rest of summer by his side in California. Though Anna and Jacob love each other “like crazy,” immigration issues, the physical distance between Los Angeles and London, and the wiles of more convenient partners (enter the white-hot Jennifer Lawrence), make their relationship achingly impossible. It’s an impediment that traps the next seven years in a series of long-distance courtship starts and stops.
What drew you to the film?
I received the outline in my flat in London, sat down in one sitting, and read it in one go. I loved the tone of it, and the idea of improvising a film was really exciting. I had never realized it was a way of making a film, of actually improvising directly to camera.
Burberry Launch & Black Books Photoshoot
Last night Felicity attended a Burberry launch event, looking cute as a button and a little black dress!
Felicity has also been featured in Black Book Magazine, in a lovely long article with a fantastic new photoshoot to accompany it.
Felicity Jones is in need of a pep talk. Tomorrow, the petite brunette—who in person looks like a graduate-student version of Audrey Hepburn—will head to Los Angeles to begin the final leg of the promotional tour for her new film, Like Crazy. Reporters, bloggers, and curious fans will grill the 27-year-old about her role in the vérité romance, and she will oblige them. “I’m getting to talk about something I really believe in,” she says. “If it were anything less than that, it would be much harder.” When the questions inevitably turn personal, Jones will instinctively tighten up. Like Crazy emerged from obscurity to win the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, igniting a bidding war won by Paramount. Jones was awarded the special Jury Prize for her own work in the bruising love story about the stop-start masochism of a long distance relationship, and she is keenly aware that journalists—this one included—will look to identify links between the actor and her character, Anna.
WWD Article and Photoshoot
Felicity Jones, burgeoning British starlet, is sitting in a booth at the Tribeca Smyth Hotel deconstructing the idea of the red carpet between sips of an orange juice and soda.
“The thing is, it’s drama; it’s theater,” Jones says of the old step and repeat. “The way I approach it is to see it as a character….Otherwise you can feel really self-conscious and actually it’s more fun than that. It doesn’t need to be taken that seriously.”
It’s midafternoon on a bright and warm October day and Jones is wearing a sleeveless knit Dolce & Gabbana dress. Her chunky brunette bangs almost brush her eyes. She is wearing very dark lipstick. The 27-year-old is somewhere on her day calendar between a taping of the “Today” show and the New York premiere that night of “Like Crazy,” which prompted the red-carpet discussion. Set for release Friday, the film figures to be as big as a largely unscripted indie romance can possibly be. The jury at the Sundance Film Festival awarded the movie its grand prize for drama in February, and handed out a special prize to Jones for her turn as a twentysomething forced into an intercontinental relationship after visa issues.
‘Like Crazy’ Premiere & Elle Scans
Felicity is currently attending the London premiere for Like Crazy and the first few pictures from the event have been added to the gallery.
Felicity also appears in November’s edition of Elle US, looking absolutely stunning. This is easily my favourite photoshoot – I don’t know how she does it!
In other news, Fliss is featured in the November edition of Glamour (US) – I’d really appreciate it if anyone who gets their hands on a copy could scan the pictures for us!
The Breakout star of Like Crazy
With thanks for Felicity Jones Fans for the heads up, we know that Felicity recently attended the Aspen Film Festival to promote Like Crazy with her costars. Two images from this event have been added to the gallery – I love her outfit, as always!
While Like Crazy promotion continues, it has been announced that it will also be screening at the Napa Valley Film Festival, ‘Screening at 5:30 pm Sunday, November 13, at the Napa Valley Opera House!’
Lastly, but certainly not least, Felicity has been featured on Details.com alongside a new photoshoot image. After a far bit of searching I have managed to find the whole set of images from the shoot and have, of course, added them to the gallery for your viewing pleasure.
Many young actresses take their work too seriously, but not Felicity Jones. A recent starring role in the 18th-century tragedy Luise Miller on London’s West End required the 27-year-old Brit to die a terrible death each night, but in one performance she opted to keel over with a big smile on her face. “A cast member dared me to,” she explains. “Everyone thinks we’re solemn, but there were a lot of jokes going on.”
That sense of spontaneity proved useful to Jones, who has been acting since she was 11, in her American big break, Like Crazy, a largely improvised tale of college sweethearts struggling to maintain a transatlantic relationship. “The first few days of shooting were incredibly frightening,” she says of the Sundance hit, in theaters this month. “There’s no script. But after a few takes, you find the right words.”
Director Drake Doremus was so impressed by Jones that he cast her in his next film, a drama about a coquette who tempts her teacher (Guy Pearce). But up first is the comedy Hysteria. “It’s about the invention of the vibrator,” Jones says with a laugh. “There’s a scene in which my character decides to give the machine a go. Doing that in front of the entire crew was . . . interesting.” Talk about an actress with buzz.
All this attention is ‘quite intimidating’ for Felicity Jones!
USA Today has posted a short interview with Felicity talking about the fame she is receiving from her current production of Like Crazy.
British actress Felicity Jones has emerged as one of this year’s breakouts, thanks to her heartbreaking performance in the Sundance winner Like Crazy. And she’s still adjusting to doing nonstop interviews in Toronto to promote her long-distance romance, which opens in October.
“It is quite intimidating. I think the best thing is to enjoy the ride while it’s happening,” says Jones on Tuesday during a chat the Fairmont Royal York hotel.
She flew in to Toronto four hours after wrapping her as-yet untitled film, also directed by Crazy‘s Drake Doremus. And sure, she’s a little knackered, but it’s all good.
“It’s not very often when you make something and you love making it and the product is something you can be really proud of. I’m really pleased to be talking about this film,” she says. “I understood what it felt like to be different people in different places.”
Like Crazy Interview and Page Eight Release
Every season gets the It girl it deserves, and with any luck, Felicity Jones will be the ingenue-of-the-moment this autumn. The 27-year-old British actor has done time as a child TV star and a corset-drama supporting player, but with her turn in Like Crazy—Drake Doremus’s indie chronicling the loneliness of a long-distance relationship, and the winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance last January—she’s poised to join the ranks of talented English roses who make larger audiences swoon.
“I was keen to explore a character who knows what she wants,” Jones says. “Or [who] knows that she’s found the person she wants to be with, even if things get in the way.” For example, the visa problems that keep her and Anton Yelchin’s characters on opposite sides of the Atlantic. The lovers struggle to maintain a connection during their postgraduation years amid bureaucratic red tape and growing pains. “The changes that you go through from the time you’re 19 to 26 are huge; those are the most formative years of your life,” Jones notes. “The fact that these two have to try and weather [that transformation] separately is a serious challenge.”
Almost as challenging, you’d imagine, as maintaining a level head when your film becomes the toast of Park City. “The Sundance experience was…it’s almost indescribable how fast it happens,” Jones admits. “You spend all this time making this small little movie that you think, Well, I like the movie, so if we’re lucky, at least a few other people will like it as well. Then suddenly, you’re in the middle of something that’s so much bigger than you. It’s a dream come true and yet completely daunting.”
Like Crazy opens Oct 28.
In other news, don’t forget to catch Felicity’s new drama Page Eight on the BBC2 this Sunday (28th August) at 9pm!
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