DVD Extra – Behind the Scenes

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Bryce Dallas Howard stars in Tennessee Williams’s never-before-produced 1950s screenplay about a rich Southern socialite and a poor boy.

Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf found out why Bryce felt a common bond with the enduring women that the legendary playwright has brought to the big screen.

Tennessee’s family.
“There are elements of all the female characters that Tennessee wrote in the character I play. All the women he created could probably be in the same family. I always kind of pictured Fisher Willow as, basically, Blanche Dubois 15 years earlier, when she still had a chance. Tennessee Williams said about A Street Car Named Desire, ‘It’s a plea for the understanding of the delicate people,’ and that’s something that’s really true for this character as well because, as hard and honest as she is, she’s also very, very delicate.”

Read the entire interview with Parade here.

Widely considered the most important American playwright of the post-WWII era, Tennessee Williams wrote the The Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond screenplay at the height of his late-50′s heyday, amid such classic plays, (which themselves were adapted into classic films) as “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “Suddenly, Last Summer,” “Sweet Bird of Youth,” and “Orpheus Descending.” Set in the Roaring Twenties in Williams’ (and director Jodie Markell’s) home town of Memphis, the film tells the story of Fisher Willow (Howard) a headstrong young heiress who chafes under the constraints of proper Southern society, and who rebels by asking the impoverished but handsome son of her father’s caretaker, Jimmy Dobyne, (Chris Evans) to escort her to the major social events of the season. The relationship is purely a business arrangement at the outset, with Fisher paying for Jimmy’s time and attention, but when she discovers that she really loves him, she finds it impossible to re-write the rules and earn the affection she tried to buy. Starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Evans, Ellen Burstyn, Ann-Margret, Jennifer Spies, Mamie Gummer, Will Paton, and Jessica Collins and directed by Jodie Markell, The Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond opens in theaters on December 30th.

The movie “tells the story of Fisher Willow (Howard), the disliked 1920s Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her. After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy, the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father and an insane mother who works at a store on her family’s plantation. She tries to pass him off as an upper-class suitor to appease the spinster aunt who controls her family’s fortune, but when she loses a diamond, it places their tenuous relationship in further jeopardy,” according to IMDB.

Howard is a Los Angeles native. Fans will remember her from her roles as Gwen Stacy in Spiderman 3, Kate Connor in Terminator Salvation and Story in Lady In The Water. You can catch her in her next film as Victoria in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond hits theaters on December 30.

Tennessee Williams On Screen And Stage

Premiere Of The Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond

Premiere Of The Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond – After Party

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