Felicity Jones, who plays his wife, Erzsébet, says she spends a huge amount of time looking for realistic female characters who are more than just weak offshoots of their husbands.
“I spend most of my life foraging through scripts, trying to find decent characters to play. That’s a huge part of it,” she explains.
“I have to find someone who has some kind of spunk, or has some fight in them. Some sense of defiance is so key, so when I read the script it was an absolute no-brainer.
“I thought this woman is tremendous. But… they are few and far between, for sure. When you get something like this, you just grab it with both hands.”
