Magazine Madness: Felicity Jones as an English Rose, Harper’s Bazaar November 2016

Harper’s Bazaar UK November 2016

Felicity Jones has managed to preserve an enigmatic quality, despite the increasing intrusiveness of the digital age. In Niall Maccormick’s Albatross, in which Jones plays a daughter at a nearly broken family, no doubt Jones’ fragile and doll-faced look with her unafraid attitude, glorifying for The Theory of Everything in 2015 too. During the interview with Lydia Slater, styled by former Lola Editor-in-Chief, Leith Clark, Jones wears Alexander McQueen embroidered tulle gown, Chanel silk dress or Burberry organza skirt, reveals her elegance and British temperament.

Jones looks far younger than her 33 years, but she has her own way to express the function of motion pictures: ‘Film is very powerful so I do feel that there is a certain amount of responsibility to portray reality’ (176). She was ‘instilled from a young age with a sense of independence and making my own way in the world, not relying on a man financially’, perhaps it’s due to her parents’ early divorce at her age of three, but her mother’s passion about theatre and film, makes her falling in love with acting.

Interestingly, through Harper’s Bazaar November 2016 fashion campaign, Jones is wearing highly feminine dresses, under Photographer David Slijper’s lenses, the floral is the eternal theme (such as Kirsten Dunstat May 2014 issue), and the title of the interview states ‘An English Rose’. Does the title means that Jones carries lovely true colours but with thrones? Diana, Princess of Wales was also entitled the same in Sir Elton John’s hit song. Taking a degree in English Literature at Wadham College, Oxford, seems to have offered Jones a different sort of training on selecting the scripts and acting. ‘It’s that disparity between the words we say and the thoughts we think’ (180).

Being very much like her British fellowship, Jones relies on family and friends to ground her, and avoids using social media to guard the peace and privacy of her off-duty lifestyle. That’s why I truly appreciate British actors and actresses, that they keep their profile low, but stand at the stage high. Appearing at paparazzi magazines as few times as possible, it never discounts any levels or popularity while British fellowship walking on the red carpets, pitching the right moments at the screens, or gracing the fashion front rows. A lot of them achieve profound education backgrounds, digesting what they have experienced, and blossoming unapologetically, like a bush of openly lovely English roses.

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