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Little Women 2019 Cast & Character Guide | Screen Rant

Who's in the Little Women 2019 cast and where have you seen them before? Based on Louisa May Alcott’s groundbreaking novel of the same name, Greta Gerwig’s big-screen adaptation was co-written with Sarah Polley.

The original Little Women novel takes place in the 1860s, during the aftermath of the American Civil War. Focused on the March family, the coming-of-age narrative explores how the central female protagonists evolve from “little women” into mature women, along with all the obstacles they face during the 19th century New England setting. Gerwig’s Little Women is the eighth feature film adaptation since 1917, with the latest released just last year.

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In 2017, Gerwig’s debut directorial feature, Lady Bird, earned five Academy Award nominations, and won two Golden Globe awards. With a Christmas Day 2019 release date, Little Women is well-positioned to similarly gain plenty of attention during awards season, not least for the impressive array of talent involved. Here’s the cast that Gerwig's assembled for Little Women.

Saoirse Ronan As Jo March

In stark contrast to Meg, Saoirse Roman’s Little Women character prioritizes her independence. Jo is the second-oldest March daughter, and often clashes with other characters because of her temper. In the novel, Jo moves to New York City to work as a writer.

Ronan’s character in Lady Bird is based on Gerwig’s real-life experiences. Similarly, Ronan’s Little Women character is based on Alcott herself. Like the aforementioned Watson, Ronan - an Irish actress - began her film career as an adolescent, delivering standout performances in both Atonement and The Lovely Bones. Ronan earned her first Best Actress Oscar nomination for Brooklyn, and received her second nod for Lady Bird. Ronan played the title role in 2018 historical drama Mary Queen of Scots.

Emma Watson As Meg March

Emma Watson replaced Emma Stone in Little Women, and she portrays the oldest March daughter, a young woman who follows societal trends rather than fully pursuing her independence. In the novel, Meg has conflict with Laurie, and ultimately marries his tutor, John Brooke.

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From 2001 to 2011, Emma Watson starred as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movie franchise. In 2014, she earned an English literature degree from the Ivy League institution Brown University, and starred as Belle in the 2017 Disney adaptation Beauty and the Beast.

Florence Pugh As Amy Curtis March

Florence Pugh stars in Little Women as the youngest March sibling, Amy, a young female artist. Amy isn’t necessarily liked by all, but she’s respected for being a hard worker. In the novel, the character meets Laurie during a European trip.

Pugh, an English actress, starred as Dani Ardor in Ari Aster’s 2019 film Midsommar. She previously delivered a breakthrough performance in Lady Macbeth (2016), and portrayed Elizabeth de Burgh in Netflix’s 2018 historical feature Outlaw King. In 2018, Pugh starred in the critically-acclaimed miniseries The Little Drummer Girl. She’ll soon make her MCU debut, portraying Yelena Belova in Black Widow.

Eliza Scanlen As Beth March

Known for her gentle and endearing demeanor, Eliza Scanlen’s Little Women character also has one of the most tragic character arcs.

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An Australian actress, Scanlen delivered a breakthrough performance in the 2018 HBO limited series Sharp Objects, portraying the conniving Amma Crellin. Scanlen made her feature debut in the 2019 drama Babyteeth, and will be part of the all-star cast for the 2020 film The Devil All the Time starring Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, and Sebastian Stan.

Timothée Chalamet As Theodore "Laurie" Laurence

Timothée Chalamet stars as the archetypal boy-next-door character in Little Women; a privileged individual who falls for Amy March. In the novel, Laurie was essentially raised by his grandfather. The character’s comfortable lifestyle contrasts with the March family dynamics.

In cinema, Chalamet first appeared in Jason Reitman’s Men, Women & Children and Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. He’s best known for portraying Elio Perlman in the 2017 drama Call Me by Your Name, in which his character travels to Italy and falls in love with an older man. Chalamet headlines Netflix’s 2019 Shakespeare adaptation The King, starring as King Henry V.

Meryl Streep As Aunt Josephine March

Much like Meg March, Meryl Streep’s Little Women character enjoys the finer things in life. Incidentally, Aunt March can often seem dismissive towards her relatives.

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Streep is a true cinema icon. As of 2019, she’s received more Oscar nominations than anybody in film history. Like her Little Women co-star Watson, she graduated from an Ivy League school, Yale University. Streep earned her first Oscar nod for the 1979 Vietnam-themed film The Deer Hunter, and recently earned similar accolades for Florence Foster Jenkins (2017) and The Post (2018). In 2019, Streep portrayed Mary Louise Wright in HBO’s Big Little Lies season 2.

Laura Dern As Marmee March

As Little Women’s primary matriarchal figure, Laura Dern’s character guides the March children through life’s trials and tribulations.

Dern is the daughter of actor Bruce Dern, who recently portrayed George Spahn in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Her mother is actress Diane Ladd, who famously starred in Martin Scorsese’s 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Dern has frequently collaborated with filmmaker David Lynch over the years, starring in Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Inland Empire, and Twin Peaks. She portrays Renata Klein on HBO’s Big Little Lies.

Bob Odenkirk As Robert March

Bob Odenkirk appears in Little Women as Marmee’s husband. In the novel, Robert is wounded during the Civil War, and gives away much of the family’s money to friends in need.

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On Breaking Bad, Odenkirk starred as the sketchy lawyer Saul Goodman. He reprised the role for the spinoff series Better Caul Saul, for which he’s been nominated for three consecutive Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor – Television Series Drama. Odenkirk previously wrote for Saturday Night Live, and also for many other comedic productions over the years. Odenkirk made his feature film debut as “Concert Nerd” in the 1993 classic Wayne’s World. In 2019, he portrayed President Chambers in Long Shot.

James Norton As John Brooke

In Little Women, English actor James Norton portrays a character based on Alcott’s real-life brother-in-law. In the novel, John falls in love with Meg, but Aunt Josephine picks up a bad vibe.

Norton is best known for his starring roles in the TV series Happy Valley and McMafia. He also portrayed Ryan in the Black Mirror season 3 episode “Nosedive.” On the big screen, he starred as the title character in the 2019 drama Mr. Jones. Norton made his film debut in the 2009 coming-of-age drama An Education.

Louis Garrel As Friedrich Bhaer

Louis Garrel plays the love interest of Ronan’s Jo March in Little Women. After re-locating to New York City from Germany, Friedrich Bhaer works as an academic and pushes Jo to pursue her creative interests.

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Garrel is the son of famous French director Philippe Garrel and actress-filmmaker Brigitte Sy. He’s accumulated an impressive resume during the 21st century, starring in notable films like The Dreamers, A Burning Hot Summer, and Redoubtable - in which he stars as the French New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard.

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Berwick

http://www.englandsnortheast.co.uk/BerwickuponTweed.html“Entering North Berwick from East Lothian and continuing down to Berwick

This should give me access to shoot geology based landscapes in East Lothian and North Berwick as well as soot landscaes with a focus on borders/natural borders along the coast, and I also wanted to focus on shooting birds here too althoguh i’m ot yet sure how they will fit into the project/final edits. Then, into Berwick where i want to bring more of a historic approach to land.

“There are different kinds of basalt found at North Berwick: Olivine rich basalt - olivine is a mineral found down deep in the earth. Vesicular basalt - vesicular means that it has many holes inside it caused by bubbles trapped in the lava when it came out of the volcano. Mugerite - this is a pale grey in colour. Another rock found is tuff and this is volcanic ash which has been erupted from the volcano, over lots and lots of years it has hardened into rock. If you go to North Berwick you can find lots of different colours of rocks such as volcanic ash which is either red or green, lava flow which is black, bubbly lava which is purple, sandstone which is grey and schist which is also grey. Berwick Law is composed of igneous rock formed during the Carboniferous period (340 mya). This area was the site of many volcanic eruptions and the Law is the result of the mouth of the volcano being choked with its own molten lava forming a plug when extinct. The Bass Rock is also a plug of a volcano. The Scottish Seabird Centre is next to the harbour and was opened by Prince Charles in June 2000. The birds that can be seen on the Bass Rock are gulliemots, kittiwakes and gannets. On Fidra, razorbills and puffins can be seen. The Seabird Centre has a lot of information on seabirds and shows with a web cam how they catch fish and what species live on each island. You can see through a telescope the Isle of May, Isle of Fidra and the Bass Rock but you can also see the islands on special cameras. There is an education centre where you can learn more about the birds on the islands. My favourite part of the seabird centre is playing the game which teaches you about trying to protect the birds. Over thirty skeletons were found on the site of the old St Andrew's graveyard, which is now the walkway to the main entrance of the Seabird Centre. The skeletons date back to the 7th Century.”

http://www.edinburghgeolsoc.org/r_action_nberwick.html

“captured or sacked 13 times before finally falling into English hands in 1482, Berwick’s great Elizabethan walls were built to keep invading Scots from entering the town. Walk the complete circuit, taking in spectacular views across the River Tweed estuary and Berwick’s three bridges, including the iconic Royal Border Bridge, built by Robert Stevenson and one of the finest bridges of its kind in the world.”

http://www.visitnorthumberland.com/berwick-upon-tweed

Interesting take on england/scotland borders issue:

“England or Scotland? Berwick-upon-Tweed's position on the north bank of the River Tweed, long held to be the nominal border between the two countries, led to the town changing hands no fewer than 14 times in the two centuries up to 1482.Since then it has remained English, so why include it in Undiscovered Scotland? In part because it played such an important part is Scottish history; in part because Berwick Rangers football club plays in the Scottish rather than the English league; in part because it's such a magnificent place to visit; and in part because it nicely rounded off the south eastern corner of our coverage until we took the decision to expand more fully into the English Borders.Even Edward IV's final capture of the town in 1482 didn't entirely simplify matters. Under the Treaty of Perpetual Peace between Henry VII of England and James IVof Scotland in 1502 (just 11 years before the Scottish army and nobility was destroyed by the English at the Battle of Flodden) Berwick was given a special status as being "of" the Kingdom of England but not "in" it. As a result the town thereafter needed special mention in royal proclamations.This had one odd effect. When Queen Victoria signed the declaration of war on Russia in 1853, she did so in the name of "Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, Ireland, Berwick-upon-Tweed and the British Dominions beyond the sea." But Berwick was not mentioned in the Treaty of Paris that concluded the Crimean War in 1856, leaving the town technically still at war with Russia.A peace treaty was only finally signed by a Russian diplomat and the the Mayor of Berwick in 1966. As the mayor said at the time: "You can tell the Russian people that they can now sleep peacefully in their beds".Berwick's early story was as one of the most important towns and ports in Scotland for a period of 250 years from 1018. But in 1296 Edward I of England sacked the town and slaughtered 8,000 of its residents. This marked the start of two centuries during which Berwick changed hands between Scots and English on average every 15 years. This was not an environment that encouraged business to flourish and the town's fortunes inevitably waned as a result.Berwick's story over its past five hundred years as an outpost of England on the "wrong" bank of the River Tweed can be told in terms of its links across the river to the rest of the country. The "Old Bridge" across the Tweed that survives today was the fifth on the site. The first was lost in a flood in 1199; the second destroyed by the English in 1216; and the third was lost to another flood in 1294. A fourth wooden bridge built in 1376 served for well over two hundred years. It may have been in the need of constant repair and patching, but it survived and accomplished its purpose.When James VI of Scotland and I of England passed through Berwick in 1603 en route to claim his English throne in London, he commented unfavourably on the state of the wooden bridge. Work started in 1611 on the stone "Old Bridge", which was finished in 1624. This remained the only road bridge over the Tweed until the building of the neighbouring New Bridge in 1928. Since 1984 the A1 and its traffic have bypassed Berwick-upon-Tweed over an even newer bridge several miles to the west.The most spectacular of the Tweed Bridges is the Royal Border Bridge, which carries the East Coast Main Line railway on 28 arches 38m above the river. This cost £253,000 to build and was opened by Queen Victoria on 29 August 1850.Apart from its bridges, Berwick's most distinctive feature is the almost intact town wall that still surrounds most of it. This started life early in the town's history, but the massively impressive artillery bastions on view today were begun on the orders of Marie de Guise in 1558 and completed over the following 20 years, mostly during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. A walk around the walls takes around 45 minutes and gives an excellent series of views into Berwick itself as well as of the River Tweed, the bridges and the surrounding countryside.Also well worth visiting are Berwick Barracks, built following the 1715 Jacobite uprising to house a defensive garrison. The barracks are now in the care of English Heritage, and are home to three museums, including the King's Own Scottish Borderers Museum and Berwick Borough Museum.Berwick-upon-Tweed is a fascinating town and a beautiful one, and a stop here should be on the itinerary of anyone making their way to Scotland up the east coast. Don't make the all-too-easy mistake of sticking to the A1 bypass and missing the town entirely”

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/berwick/berwickupontweed/index.html

Intersting intergration of poetry... could work in book?:

“BERWICK : TOWN ON THE SCOTTISH BORDEROn the mainland five miles north of Holy Island, is the mouth of the River Tweed and the most historic town of Berwick Upon Tweed. The most northerly town in England, perhaps no other town in North East England has had a more eventful history than Berwick. There is no doubt that Berwick upon Tweed can claim the distinction of being the Border Town, as it has changed hands between England and Scotland thirteen times. Its history is inextricably tied up with the struggle for the Anglo Scottish frontier. An old legend is said to explain the fascinating history of Berwick;"During the temptation while the Evil one was showing to the Holy one all the kingdoms of the earth he kept Berwick hidden beneath his thumb, wishing to reserve it as his own little nook"Berwick with an English name meaning `Corn Farm' began as a small settlement in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria, in which it remained until the Battle of Carham of 1018 when it was taken by the Scots. From then on Berwick became a hotly disputed territory. In 1174 Berwick was retaken by England in a ransom following the failure of a raid into Northumberland by the Scottish king, William the Lion.

Above: An old postcard showing BerwickThe town returned to the northern side of the border in the reign of Richard I (1189-1199), who sold it to obtain money for the Crusades. At the beginning of the following century Berwick returned once more to England, after Richard's brother, King John sacked the town, but Berwick continued to change hands until 1482 when the town finally became part of England within which it still (technically) remains.BERWICK : ENGLISH OR SCOTTISH ?Today the visitor to Berwick can be forgiven for believing it to be a Scottish town, as after all it stands on the northern bank of the River Tweed, an entirely Scottish river and it does seem to have a rather Scottish appearance. Berwick is also the name of a large Scottish Burgh and the old county of Berwickshire (of which Berwick was not part !) was in Scotland. Furthermore Berwick, is a little bit more closer to the Scottish capital of Edinburgh, than to the North East's regional centre of

Newcastle upon Tyne

.The belief that Berwick is Scottish is also reinforced by the fact that most of the commercial banks in the town are Scottish and that the local football team plays in the Scottish league.

Dialect

also leads to the belief that Berwick is Scottish as to most Englishmen the local `Tweedside' accent spoken in Berwick sounds Scottish, although most Scots would recognise the

Northumbrian

influence.The Scottish claim for Berwick is certainly strong but the English influence upon the area is also very significant. Berwick as already stated began as an English or at least an Anglo-Saxon settlement, in the

Kingdom of Northumbria

and although for four hundred years it regularly changed hands between England and Scotland it has remained in the former part of the United Kingdom for the past five centuries. Berwick's policeman and laws are therefore English, and its most senior councillor is an English mayor not a provost as in the Scottish system of local government. Until recently Berwick town also has an important status, as the administrative centre for the Northumberland County District of Berwick upon Tweed, which included the

Farne islands

Lindisfarne

and the very Northumbrian villages of

Wooler

Bamburgh

and Belford.INDEPENDENT TOWN, PROSPEROUS PASTIt is hardly surprising that given Berwick's curious Anglo Scottish location, the local residents tend to regard themselves as independent `Tweedsiders' or `Berwickers' rather than English or Scottish. In fact until the Reform Act of 1885 Berwick did have a considerable degree of independence with the status of a `Free Burgh' meaning that it had to be mentioned separately in Acts of Parliament.Berwick's status was such that even the Crimean War had to be declared in the name of Great Britain, Ireland and Berwick Upon Tweed. Strangely after this war, when the peace treaty was signed Berwick's name was omitted and for many years the town was said to be technically still at war with the Russians.It is hard to believe that a town with such a turbulent history as Berwick was once one of the most prosperous merchant towns in Britain and was worth to Scotland an annual customs value of £2,190, which was equivalent to about one quarter of the customs of the whole of England. In the thirteenth century the wealthy town was described as;"So populous and of such commercial importance that it might rightly be called another Alexandria, whose riches were the sea and the water its walls"BERWICK : TOWN WALLS, BUILDINGS AND BRIDGESIn the fourteenth century Berwick became a real walled town when King Edward I fortified it against Scottish attack. His defensive walls supplemented the stronghold of Berwick Castle which stood on the site of the present railway station. Some of the town walls can still be seen today, dating mainly from the later Elizabethan period. They are among the finest of their kind in Europe.Berwick is one of the most picturesque towns on the region's coast, mainly because of its attractive red roofed houses, pinkish grey Georgian buildings and the fine seventeenth century bridge, which spans the River Tweed.Most notable of the town's buildings are the spired town hall of 1754 and the Berwick parish church, called Holy Trinity which is one of only a few built in England in Cromwellian times. For an historic parish church it is unusual, in that it has no steeple, tower or church bell. Instead a bell in the Town Hall is used to summon people to the church services at Holy Trinity. It is no wonder that many visitors to Berwick mistake the Town Hall for the parish church.The River Tweed at Berwick is almost as well known as the Tyne at

Newcastle

for its bridges. There are three here namely; Old Bridge, the Royal Tweed Bridge, and the Royal Border Bridge.The Royal Tweed is the most recent, built in 1925 it carries the old A1 through the town, although the more modern road now bypasses the town to the west. The Royal Border Bridge is an impressive nineteenth century railway viaduct. Opened by Queen Victoria in 1850, it was built by Robert Stephenson, creating an important rail link between London and Edinburgh.The `Old Bridge', also known as `Berwick Bridge' dates from 1611. It is a fine red sandstone structure with fourteen arches. Until the nineteenth century it was the main crossing point of the Tweed at Berwick, but did not as might be expected link Northumberland to Scotland. It in fact linked the

Norhamshire

district of the County Palatine of Durham to the county burgh of Berwick upon Tweed. County boundaries are a little more logical today.A POEM ABOUT BERWICK"Berwick is an ancient town

A church without a steeple

A pretty girl at every door

And very generous people."

OR ?

"A bridge without a middle arch

A church without a steeple

A midden heap in every street

And damned conceited people."

The less complimentary verse is attributed to Robbie Burns”

http://www.englandsnortheast.co.uk/BerwickuponTweed.html

Witchcraft/ link to thunderhead? - could work well for video project:

“ This volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the best known and most notorious episodes of Scottish history, the North Berwick witch hunt, in which King James was involved as alleged victim, interrogator, judge and demonologist. It provides hitherto unpublished and inaccessible material from the legal documentation of the trials in a way that makes the material fully comprehensible, as well as full texts of the pamphlet News from Scotland and James' Demonology, all in a readable, modernised, scholarly form. Full introductory sections and supporting notes provide information about the contexts needed to understand the texts: court politics, social history and culture, religious changes, law and the workings of the court, and the history of witchcraft prosecutions in Scotland before 1590. The book also brings to bear on this material current scholarship on the history of European witchcraft. ”

http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/7635/

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