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...Willig daydreams about her ideal cast for a film Carnation, should one ever come around...
...This wonderful marketing person [at Dutton] came up to me and said, ‘So, for Richard, Orlando Bloom?’” Willig remembers. “We toyed with the idea of Anne Hathaway for Amy….We couldn’t find a role for Colin Firth, which was distressing...
...thing Willig knows she won’t be doing: setting a novel in the historical period that she actually studies, a century and a half before Carnation takes place...
...Willig learned this lesson the hard way, at a 1998 screening of Elizabeth—in which Cate Blanchett’s turn as the titular queen was briefly supplemented by a cameo appearance by Marie De Guise, the sixteenth-century Scottish monarch who happened to be the subject of her senior thesis...
...leave in the middle,” Willig recalls. “It was just so historically inaccurate...