"There's one film Felicity Jones can't wait to see next year: Wuthering Heights. "If you are going to do a classic, then it's [about] finding a new way in," she says. "I like the way that Emerald Fennell did that with Brideshead Revisited with Saltburn. She takes quite a classic story and then spins it and makes it alienating a little bit.""
"Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic is one of Jones's favorite novels - Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is too; more on that later - and the 42-year-old actress increasingly finds herself reading to find "stories that can potentially work on screen." The key, she says, is finding the why. "You've got to find the: Well, what is the reason to tell it now? What is the modernity in it that we need to do it?Otherwise, what's the point?""
Felicity Jones is eager to see a new Wuthering Heights film and values inventive approaches to classic material. Jones admires Emerald Fennell's ability to rework Brideshead Revisited into Saltburn and to make a familiar story feel slightly alienating. Jones counts Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights among her favorites and increasingly reads for stories that can work on screen. Jones demands a modern reason to tell an adapted story. Jones built a career through selective role choices after studying English at Oxford and has earned awards and Oscar nominations. Jones will star opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Chloe Grace Moretz in a Prime Christmas comedy reminiscent of Home Alone.
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