It turns out that a subplot featuring a relationship between the headmistress of Emma Thompson's character's kids' school and her partner was initially included in the film, but ultimately ended up on the cutting room floor.
Sheila Hancock was the lead in a play called Prin playing the character of a domineering headmistress of a girl's school.
An Education also features fine supporting performances by Olivia Williams as a caring, dedicated teacher, Miss Stubbs, Dominic Cooper and Rosamund Pike as David's friend Danny and his girlfriend Helen, Emma Thompson as Jenny's Thatcheresque headmistress, and Sally Hawkins in a cameo role as Sarah (whose relationship to the other characters shall remain a secret).
Everett is promoting his role as a headmistress in "St.
What's worth reinstating is neither hiding from an Exeter student in the bathroom, nor headmistresses who regulate skirt lengths, but the deep character and eccentricity young women felt free to develop in single-sex schools.
"Later on in the film... we suddenly fell in with this headmistress and you realize no matter how unlikely it seems that any character you come across in life has their own complicated tale of love".
It was a really good role for her because she plays a headmistress.
Equally, Miss Stubbs, admirably played by Olivia Williams, is seen as a spinster, possibly a lesbian unfulfilled by her life of culture, and while the headmistress (Emma Thompson) may have harboured a traditional middle-class anti-semitism, one wonders whether the corresponding character in real life would have been so strident in her denunciation of Jews as Christ-killers.
Based on the 1988 children's novel by Roald Dahl, "Matilda" has the darkness and mordant tone of Dahl's best-known novels, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "James and the Giant Peach," as the title character — a 5-year-old genius — faces off against parents who loath her, a barbaric headmistress and a classroom of "revolting children" (the title of one song).
Whilst Matilda is the novel's central character many readers will be drawn to the larger-than-life, extrovert, humourous and strangely likeable headmistress, Miss Trunchbull.
