Julian Jarrold and Hayley Atwell, Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, rightly regarded as one of the great Catholic novels of the 20th century,
has been adapted with the cooperation of Waugh's estate into Julian Jarrold's two-hour feature film. Jarrold discusses
condensing a novel that was first seen as an 11-part Granada TV series in 1981. We also talk with Hayley Atwell, who
made her debut in Woody Allen's London-set Cassandra's Dream. In Brideshead Atwell is the daughter of Lady Marchmain (Emma
Thompson) and sister of doomed, gay, teddy-bear hugging Sebastian (Ben Whishaw),
whose platonic, homoerotic affair with Sebastian's friend Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) precipitates all sorts of trouble.

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