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Byline: ADAM GREEN editor: Valerie Steiker
Hayley Atwell embraces the divine and the sensual in two contrasting roles.
For fans of the languorous 1981 television serial Brideshead Revisited, based on Evelyn Waugh's novel about homoerotic friendship, heterosexual passion, and Catholic guilt, the question that comes to mind about a two-hour, big-screen remake is, Why? The answer is Hayley Atwell, a ravishing 26-year-old who brings luminous intelligence and emotional ripeness to her portrayal of a young woman torn between love and faith. A sloe-eyed beauty, equal parts English rose and exotic flower, Atwell is best known for her sexy, soulful performance in Woody Allen's otherwise glum Cassandra's Dream. Most recently, she squared off with Simon Russell Beale at London's National Theatre in Major Barbara, as another woman roiled by divine fervor.
Atwell herself comes from a family of spiritual seekers. Her mother once took her fire walking, and her father is a student of shamanism. An only child, she spent ...