Character: Tamsin

Created by: Helen Cross (novel)

Directed by: Pawel Pawlikowski

Written by: Pawel Pawlikowski

Produced by: Christopher Collins, Tanya Seghatchian

Cast Members: Natalie Press, Dean Andrews, Paddy Considine

Released date: July 1, 2005

Genre: Drama, Romance

Duration: 96 minutes

In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. Over the summer season, the two young women discover they have much to teach one another, and much to explore together.

Taglines

→ The most dangerous thing to want is more.

Trivia

⋄ Pawlikowski felt Emily Blunt was the perfect choice for Tamsin and that the chemistry between Press and Blunt was perfect right from the start.
⋄ Emily Blunt’s first on-screen love scene and nudity.
⋄ Emily Blunt said she shot a scene totally nude on a closed location set, but when she stood by a window, she realized a construction crew was looking up at her.

Character’s Quotes

• If you leave me, I’ll kill you.
• This is Edith Piaf. I just adore her. She was this marvellous Parisian woman who had such a wonderfully tragic life. She was married 3 times & each husband died in mysterious circumstances. The last one was a boxing champion and she killed him with a fork. She didn’t even go to prison because in France crimes of passion are forgiven.
• Apparently I’m a bad influence on people.
• I just felt so useless. She was my one sister, my beautiful sister and she started to turn into this monster. These bones on her body just started to jut out like someone had stuck daggers under her skin. And her hair, she started growing hair all over her body – it was like a sort of dense fur, like a werewolf. And she stopped smiling, she couldn’t smile anymore because she was throwing up all the time and the vomit, acid made her teeth go all yellow and she just stopped smiling and stopped living.