Felicity Jones stuns in a red latex dress in cover shoot as she discusses 'pushing back on expectations' and 'gender imbalance' in the industry
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Felicity Jones stunned in a red latex dress for her latest cover as she discussed 'pushing back on expectations' and gender imbalance in the film industry.
Posing in a series of sultry images for Marie Claire, the actress, 41, looked incredible in a scoop neck fitted number with a fitted corset top.
She later changed into a black cut-out dress with a lace bra top layered underneath for the rooftop shoot.
In the accompanying interview with the magazine, Felicity, who recently started her own production company said: 'There are always expectations about how one should be and it’s about pushing back on those.'
After rising to fame in 2011's Like Crazy, she recalled the 'profound gender imbalance' during her early career likening it to 'walking onto a building site.'
Felicity added: 'Young actresses could get easily pigeonholed. There would often be descriptions relating to appearance rather than character in scripts, but I have noticed people are more conscious of that.'
Felicity Jones stunned in a red latex dress for her latest cover as she discussed 'pushing back on expectations' and gender imbalance in the film industry
Posing in a series of sultry images for Marie Claire , the actress, 41, later changed into a black cut-out dress with a lace bra top layered underneath for the rooftop shoot
She continued: 'Female directors need to have the funds to make films. But it’s been an extraordinary shift.'
The actress will next star as Erzsébet Tóth in historical drama, The Brutalist, which is set for release in January.
The Brutalist, which is directed by Brady Corbet, is a post-war epic about a Holocaust survivor attempting to rebuild a life in America.
Inspired by the Jean-Louis Cohen's book Architecture in Uniform, the film stars Adrien Brody as a Hungarian architect with Felicity playing his wife.
Spanning decades, The Brutalist tells the story of László Tóth and his attempts to pursue his art after the war in America.
Adrien plays Tóth. He lives in near-poverty until a wealthy industrialist, Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce), gives him an important contract. Joe and Alessandro Nivola also star.
The actor said it was a character and a story he felt an 'immediate kinship and understanding for.'
His mother, photographer Sylvia Plachy, was a Hungarian immigrant who fled in 1956 during the anti-Soviet revolution to restart and attempt to build a life as an artist.
In the accompanying interview with the magazine, Felicity, who recently started her own production company said: 'There are always expectations... it’s about pushing back on those'
After rising to fame in 2011's Like Crazy, she recalled the 'profound gender imbalance' during her early career likening it to 'walking onto a building site'
Felicity added: 'Young actresses could get easily pigeonholed. There would often be descriptions relating to appearance... but I have noticed people are more conscious of that'
Adrien said: 'Even though it's fiction, it feels very real and very real to me. That's so important for me to embody a character and make it real.'
Director Brady Corbet said: 'The film is about the physical manifestation of the trauma of the 20th century. It's dedicated to the artists that didn't get to realise their vision.'
Speaking at Venice Film Festival last month, he added: 'This film does everything that we are told we are not allowed to do.
'I've read great novellas, I've read great multi-volume masterpieces,' Corbet said.
'Maybe the next thing I make will be about 45 minutes, and I should be allowed to do that. … As Harmony Korine once said, cinema is stuck in the birth canal. And I agree with him.'
Felicity's cover for Marie Claire is out now
