Ralph Fiennes’ second directing project following Coriolanus tells the story of Charles Dickens’ secret love affair with a young actress. Who better to play the iconic author than Fiennes himself. Sarah Cooper reports.

Watching Ralph Fiennes on the set of The Invisible Woman, complete with beard, Victorian costume and surrounded by street urchins, he looks like he was born to play Charles Dickens.

But after the challenge of his directorial debut Coriolanus –in which he also played the lead – Fiennes was initially reluctant to take on both acting and directing.

“It was a tough call. I was a bit wary having done it once on Coriolanus. But as I got to know Dickens, the actor in me saw the appeal of the role and the feeling that I should take it on became stronger and stronger” says Fiennes, who is now midway through the film’s 10-week shoot.

Based on Claire Tomalin’s biography, the film tells the story of the secret love affair between Dickens and young actress Nelly Ternan, played by rising British star Felicity Jones. Kristin Scott Thomas, who appeared alongside Fiennes in The English Patient stars as Ternan’s mother along with Tom Hollander who plays fellow novelist Wilkie Collins.
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Ralph is nominated for a BAFTA award for his directorial debut for Coriolanus. Congratulations!

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

ATTACK THE BLOCK – Joe Cornish (Director/Writer)

BLACK POND – Will Sharpe (Director/Writer), Tom Kingsley (Director), Sarah Brocklehurst (Producer)

CORIOLANUS – Ralph Fiennes (Director)

SUBMARINE – Richard Ayoade (Director/Writer)

TYRANNOSAUR – Paddy Considine (Director), Diarmid Scrimshaw (Producer)

A little while ago the trailer for Wrath of the Titans was released. Ralph was only featured in it very briefly but I made screen captures anyway.

Today is Ralph birthday so I would like to wish him a happy birthday. I hope he has a great day!

Ralph will direct the adaption of the novel The Invisible Woman and now Felicity Jones has been landed the main part.

Felicity Jones is making a name for herself by being an onscreen persona with some serious relationship issues. The 28-year-old actress just earned a Gotham Award for her performance in the indie hit “Like Crazy” and landed the role of one of Howard Hughes’ love interests in Warren Beatty’s biopic of the eccentric millionaire, and now she’s landed another part as a popular historical figure’s main squeeze. The Daily Mail is reporting that she’ll play Charles Dickens’ mistress of 13 years, Nelly Ternan, in an adaptation of the novel “The Invisible Woman.”

Ralph Fiennes will direct the adaptation, and we’re hoping he’ll star in the film as Dickens as well. Fiennes is hot off his well-received directorial debut “Coriolanus,” which is getting an Oscar run in New York and Los Angeles starting today.

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Ralph did a great interview with The Guardian about Coriolanus and more.

With six children, his parents struggled to make ends meet. Now Ralph Fiennes is the toast of Hollywood – and making his directorial debut with Coriolanus. He tells Xan Brooks his story

Ralph Fiennes: ‘My mother introduced me to Shakespeare at a very young age.’ Photograph: Kalpesh Lathigra
Ralph Fiennes’s trailer sits on a patch of wasteland beside the river and near the airport, in a neck of east London that’s barely London. The cabbie can’t find it and keeps driving in circles, his irritation rising as the planes rumble overhead. Either the satnav is scrambled or the address does not exist. “It’s meant to be here but there’s nothing there,” he grumbles. “It’s not a place, it’s off the map.”

It’s only later, safely arrived, that it strikes me that the non-place may well be the best place to meet Ralph Fiennes, an actor who does not so much inhabit his roles as hide out in them and a man who approaches press interviews with the carefree air of someone about to undergo extensive root-canal surgery. If it has to be done, it should at least be on his terms: on neutral ground, in a trailer, the door ajar at his back. He likes it open, he says, because it lets in some air, although it’s also a handy escape hatch should the need arise.
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