![]() But Bathsheba “starts the story saying that she doesn’t want one and nor has she given it any thought. ![]() “I was never that interested in playing the girl who starts the story looking for a husband,” she says. In fact, it was those very traits that attracted Mulligan, who has shied away from British costume dramas in recent years, to the part. “She’s a real contradiction,” Mulligan tells TIME of her character, who runs her own farm and grapples with multiple suitors. ![]() Like Katniss, Mulligan’s Bathsheba is determined and independent-though she’s often unsure of her own feelings. The Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins has said that the protagonist of her series, Katniss Everdeen, “owes her last name to Bathsheba Everdene, the lead character in Far From the Madding Crowd.” Audiences of the lush new film adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 19th-century novel, starring Carey Mulligan, will find it easy to see why. ![]()
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