“I do think that there is a very wrong image out there about her. She’s so much more complex than what people think. That’s something we’re really getting into on our show.”
On the new period drama “Marie Antoinette,” you won’t hear the title character say the famous line, “Let them eat cake.”
“No, that’s actually fake news,” said Emilia Schüle, 30, who stars as the titular character. “It was designed to harm the crown, in the process of the [French Revolution]. She never said that.” Premiering Sunday, March 19 , “Marie Antionette” has already been renewed for a second season. It was originally a Canal+ and BBC Two production overseas, created by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Deborah Davis . Set in the eighteenth century, the drama follows the famous last Queen of France beginning with her teenage years, as she’s sent from her home in Austria to France, in order to marry the awkward Louis XVI , who won’t talk to her and doesn’t appear to bathe.
“The film makes me quite angry, because it stays on the surface and doesn’t depict the complexity of her life, the struggle she was facing, and how hostile the environment was that she was living in. There were forces working against her, trying to get rid of her. I think most of the views of her today are shaped by this Coppala film, and it doesn’t do her justice.”“I got the part and was happy for 10 minutes,” said Schüle.
“The moment I understood why she partied so much, why she distracted herself with all of these things that she’s now condemned for – I really felt like I understood her. It was the first time I really let my own childishness go free on set, because normally I just want to seem very professional. But Marie Antoinette empowered me to have fun and be goofy.”
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