Ian McEwan in Bloomberg She's a kind of alter ego,McEwan said. "I gave her some of my own childhood. I was a rather private, inward little boy, very much a daydreamer. I liked secrets and kept notebooks. Like Briony, I wish I had more secrets to keep and was very...
Christopher Hampton in Washington Post I had been trying to find a formula whereby the same actress could play the young Briony and the (slightly older) Briony,Hampton explains. "That idea would have involved casting a 15-year-old actress who could have gone both ways. And I am...