Emerald Fennell Feels Cindrella Wasn't Exactly A Thrill-Ride Of Charisma, Here's Why!
Actress-writer Emerald Fennell enjoyed the challenge of finding Cinderella’s personality when penning a new musical adaptation of the fairytale.
Fennell has joined hands with Andrew Lloyd-Webber on a new musical version of the classic fairytale and one of the first problems she encountered was how few defining traits the central character has, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
“Who was Cinderella exactly? Arguably the most famous heroine in literature, and I could hardly think of a single personality trait. She was very good at housework, very good at singing to small animals, very good at being meek and quiet and forbearing, but she wasn’t exactly a thrill-ride of charisma,” Fennell said.
She added: “After centuries of sweeping the chimney, she’d been reduced to little more than a bottle blonde with a martyr complex. Luckily, it takes one to know one so I was up for the challenge.”
The actress-writer tagged Prince Charming a royal wet blanket and shared Cinderella was making a shoddy romantic decision in falling for him.
“There was also a bit of a heart-throb problem in the shape of royal wet blanket and fairytales’ most famous foot fetishist, Prince Charming,” she wrote in an article for The Times newspaper.
