The actress used to put pressure on herself, but a baby, a new film and British beach holidays keep her grounded, she explains

I’ve heard that Felicity Jones is an immersive actor; when she takes on roles she devotes herself to them like a nun. So it was with a shock of recognition that I saw her in her new film, The Last Letter from Your Lover, sitting in the features department of a modern national newspaper with a long history and huge archive. Jones’s journalist answers her desk phone with a wary, one-word “Features”, just as I used to answer the phone in The Times features department, at least back when I used a phone.

I can say with confidence that Jones finally nails the character of a “feature writer” — if I also had the looks and charisma of a Hollywood actress and spent my weeks falling in love with The Times archivist while on the trail of an intense 1960s love story buried in its stacks. (At The Times the archive editor is an esteemed woman some years my senior, so that romance may have to wait for the sequel.) What was Jones’s character insight for this contemporary feature writer? Oh, play her as if “she is always a bit hung over”, she replies. Yes, I guess that is exactly right.

Talking to Jones I can see that, as much as she immerses herself in character, she can never stop being extremely British and somewhat vintage (her modern feature writer even sports a signature retro beret, something I have to say I have never done, even when hung over, which, as Jones points out, might be a lot of the time). Put those together and she evokes those classic British actresses of the 1970s, such as Julie Christie, Joanna Lumley and Diana Rigg, who, like Jones, have an upright bearing masking their softness.

Most of all there’s that voice. It’s a rich mix of no-nonsense and RP, a dame in welly boots. Even her name sounds like something that could be conjured up in an Austin Powers movie — “Felicity” the aristocrat matched with “Jones” the eternal British trademark.

Her most garlanded performance is as the 1970s-era Jane Hawking in The Theory of Everything, which was about the marriage of Stephen Hawking and won her an Oscar nomination. In this she starred with Eddie Redmayne, and she was also his romantic lead in The Aeronauts, a Victorian ballooning romp. They resemble each other like siblings. She is 37, but, like Redmayne, routinely plays characters ten years younger; they also share that fashionable overbite.

Felicity Jones has always been drawn to narrative—first as an actor and student (she studied English literature in college), and now as a first-time executive producer. In Netflix’s “The Last Letter From Your Lover,” Jones plays a heartbroken journalist who pieces together a romantic tale from the 1960s after discovering a series of love letters in her newspaper’s archives. As executive producer and star, Jones was able to inform every aspect of her character, from world-building to dialogue.

What drew you to “The Last Letter From Your Lover” as not only an actor, but a producer?
I’ve been attracted to Jojo Moyes, [the author of the novel “The Last Letter From Your Lover,”] for years. I was looking for something of hers to option, and that came from seeing that she was so brilliant at creating such accessible female characters who were nuanced, who had comedy and humor. Ever since I’d done a film years ago called “Chalet Girl,” I‘d been looking for something a little bit similar. I’d had such fun on that. When I came across this, I thought it had a wonderful mixture of the modernity in the character I play, Ellie’s, story, mixed in with this romantic sweep of everlasting love. I thought, I’d love watching this film with some chocolate and a glass of wine. I’d done some quite heavy lifting in “The Aeronauts,” and I was ready for something a little bit more cozy. Actually, when I first met Augustine [Frizzell, the director], she and I sat down; and we were talking about what we were hoping to do, and she used that word, “cozy,” and that’s what I responded to and wanted to do next.

When you were reading the script and deciding how it would take place on the screen, was there ever a time when you considered taking on Jennifer, Shailene Woodley’s role, or was Ellie the character you connected with more?
I totally, immediately connected with Ellie’s character. I felt an empathy for the moment that she’s in in the film. She’s lost a little bit of the meaning of things, and she’s a little bit aimless. She’s got to a decent point in her career, and she’s going, “Is this it?” She’s been burned in the past in relationships, and I liked the way she was handling that with loads of sarcasm. That really appealed in that moment.

Felicity Jones attends “The Last Letter From Your Lover” UK premiere at Ham Yard Hotel on July 27, 2021 in London. You can go to the gallery and enjoy the photos!

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The forbidden love affair between a 1960s couple (Shailene Woodley and Callum Turner) is uncovered by an ambitious present-day journalist (Felicity Jones) after she finds a trove of secret love letters. Directed by Augustine Frizzell, adapted from Jojo Moyes’ sweeping, romantic novel, and also starring Joe Alwyn and Nabhaan Rizwan.

Watch The Last Letter From Your Lover on Netflix July 23.

The Felicity Jones and Shailene Woodley StudioCanal feature The Last Letter From Your Lover will hit Netflix on July 23 and in select territories.

The Augustine Frizzell directed romance based on JoJo Moyes’ bestselling novel, will also open in the UK, exclusively in cinemas, on Aug. 6. Netflix doesn’t have UK rights to the film.

Oscar nominee Jones and 2x Golden Globe nominee Woodley star in this dual-narrative love story set in the French Riviera and London during the 1960s and present day. The story follows Ellie (Jones), a young female journalist in contemporary London who uncovers a series of love letters in the archives which tell the story of an intensely romantic but star-crossed affair in the 1960s between Jennifer Stirling (Woodley) and Anthony O’Hare (Turner). As Ellie is drawn into the story, she becomes obsessed with discovering the lovers’ identities and finding out how their love story ends.

Pete Czernin and Graham Broadbent of Blueprint Pictures are producing alongside Simone Urdl and Jennifer Weiss of The Film Farm StudioCanal, who fully financed the film. Jones and Woodley are both executive producing. Callum Turner, Joe Alwyn, Nabhaan Rizwan also star. Nick Payne and Esta Spalding adapted the feature.

Svensk is releasing the movie in theaters in Scandinavia on July 30. A release will follow in France later this year. The film will be on Netflix everywhere else from July 23. [Source]

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The moment that Felicity Jones watched the livestream of Pierpaolo Piccioli’s autumn/winter 2021 collection for Valentino, she decided to wear one of his creation’s for her first post-lockdown event. Presented in Milan’s echoing Piccolo Teatro – which has been firmly closed since the beginning of the pandemic – Piccioli expressly designed clothes that would feel radical, bold and sensual.

“That combination of romance and punk spirit – it’s just my happy place,” the former BAFTA nominee tells Vogue over the phone on her way to tonight’s BAFTAs, where she is set to present the award for Best Cinematography. For the run-up to the ceremony, she selected a voluminous Valentino ballgown, before changing into an off-the-shoulder custom look at the Royal Albert Hall. The latter’s black fabric was embellished with masses of ’20s-style fringed beading – an appropriate way to welcome in the true beginning of the Roaring Twenties – paired with diamond Pluie de Cartier earrings and a Reflection de Cartier ring. “Pierpaolo’s idea that we’re living through a period when the rules have gone out of the window chimed with where my head is at in this particular moment. Creativity is opening up again in this fantastic way. It’s a new dawn for cinema and fashion.”

For Jones, that new dawn has personal resonance, with her long-delayed film The Last Letter From Your Lover finally due to premiere this summer. “I actually shot that in the last few months before the pandemic hit, so it’s quite nostalgic for me reflecting on it,” the 37-year-old, who also served as an executive producer for the movie, notes. “I play a journalist in London, who’s reached a point in her life when she’s feeling quite disillusioned. I actually played her as if she constantly had a hangover. Clearly, she’s lost her direction a bit, but then she finds these old letters between Shailene Woodley and Callum Turner’s characters, who had this illicit romance in the ’60s. For me, it’s a hopeful film, and one that will give people a much-needed laugh, I think.”

And while Jones is “really, really excited to go to the shops” when various lockdown restrictions end in London tomorrow, she’s most thrilled about the prospect of heading to her local cinema in a few months time. “We’re never going to take that for granted again, watching a film with a box of popcorn and a glass of wine, that joyful communal experience – my God, I’ve missed it.” [Source]

Finally, Felicity attended a new event. She was a presenter at the 74th British Academy Film Awards.

Felicity Jones attends the EE British Academy Film Awards 2021 at the Royal Albert Hall on April 11, 2021 in London. You can go to the gallery to take a look to the great photos!

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