‘I FEEL LIKE I’VE MADE ANICHE OUT OF FALLEN WOMEN. THE ANTI-LADY IS WHAT I’VE BEEN DRAWN TO…’
PORTRAITS SEBASTIAN KIM
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J
essie Buckley is telling
Total Film
to fuck off. ‘You’re a fucking eejit,’ she spits.
Thankfully, the outburst is prompted. In the 34-year-old actor’s latest film,
Wicked Little Letters,
Buckley plays Rose Gooding, a rowdy Irish migrant living in the quaint English seaside town of 1920s Littlehampton. Rose, a single mum, makes eyebrows soar and curtains twitch with her foul mouth and boisterous behaviour, so is naturally the prime suspect when her pious neighbour, Edith Swan (Olivia Colman), receives anonymous letters addressing her as a ‘fucking old bag of shit’ and worse. The constant stream of inventive invective is hilarious, and attains a certain musicality when delivered in Buckley’s native brogue.