‘Important to get

LOS ANGELES: Actor Dakota Fanning says The Bell Jar is an important story to tell. She is confident the movie will surprise people.

Fanning, 24, will essay Esther Greenwood and her battle with depression in Kirsten Dunst’s upcoming adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s classic novel, reports thetimes.co.uk.

“It’s such an important story, and really different from what people think it is. People think it’s depressing, or a biography of Sylvia Plath, but it’s not and there’s so much humour in it,” she said.

“You follow a young woman during a formative time in her life, and see how overwhelming the expectations of what women feel they are supposed to be like can be. We all feel that to some extent,” she added. Fanning says she is looking for similar roles in the future. “I like playing characters where everyone thinks they’re one thing but they know they’re not. That interests me, because I feel like, in my life, I’m trying to work that out,” said Fanning. magazine.

The 44-year-old actor, who played Mary Morstan to Freeman’s Dr John Watson on the BBC series, said she had to “keep things together” for their children. They have daughter Grace and son Joe together. “It was one of the darkest moments of my life but, although I didn’t know it then, it was also to mark the beginning of an extraordinary journey of self-discovery.