London audiences will see her next in Cary Fukunaga's dark, surreal Jane Eyre, released in September, and she's just filmed Bel Ami in London and Budapest opposite Twilight star, Robert Pattinson, which comes out this month.
She is in awe of the way Pattinson has handled his meteoric rise to fame. When they were filming in Budapest, the Hungarian radio stations constantly broadcast their location, so Pattinson had to keep changing hotels.
Arguably, Grainger's biggest break will be playing Estella in David Nicholls's new screen adaptation of Dickens's Great Expectations. You sense she will be terrific as the ice maiden who breaks Pip's heart. According to the film's producer Elizabeth Karlsen: "She is just an incredibly fine actor and has the beauty that is needed for Estella as well as an extraordinary technical ability."
As for Hollywood, Grainger seems surprisingly sanguine about the pressures and claims she's never been asked to lose weight for a role. People need to see more natural body shapes, she insists, especially with a character such as Lucrezia in a time when women were depicted with ample bosoms and rounded stomachs in many Renaissance paintings.
Grainger has been doing an Open University degree in English alongside filming but, as she says, she's been living in the 19th century for the past year with Jane Eyre and Bel Ami. "It kind of feels like I've been having a parallel education."
You can read her full interview HERE
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