Age: 36
female
Sophie Cookson (born 15 May 1990) is an English film and television actress. She played Grace Mohune in the 2013 TV film of Moonfleet. In 2013, she was cast to play the female lead in Kingsman: The Secret Service. She is also co-starring with Adrien Brody in Lee Tamahori's historical film Emperor. She was raised in Sussex and is a 2013 graduate of the Oxford School of Drama.
He divided his kingdom between his daughters based on how much they said they loved him. Only one loved him too much to lie. He banished her. This is what followed. The fullest, most unsparing adaptation of King Lear — the play that many critics consider Shakespeare's greatest and his most demanding. Set in the mythic pre-Roman Britain of the text, rendered in the visual language of Iron Age Britain — wild, weathered, spectacular, stripped of romantic medieval softness. The film does not flinch from the play's darkness: this is the play in which a daughter dies for no reason except the specific cruelty of the world, in which an old man's eyes are gouged out on stage, in which goodness is not rewarded and evil is not satisfyingly punished. The storm scene is the film's centerpiece — shot on actual location, Lear genuinely in the rain for the sequence, the scene given its full forty minutes of screen time. Act One — The Division The court in its full power. The love-test. Cordelia's refusal. The banishment. The specific moment when everything begins to collapse. Act Two — The Storm Lear on the heath. The storm sequence — the film's central forty minutes. 'Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks.' Act Three — The Parallel Gloucester's betrayal, blinding, and Dover journey alongside Lear's madness. The film's most formally intricate section. Act Four — The Ending Cordelia's return. The reconciliation. The final battle. 'Never, never, never, never, never.'
