It's a framing mechanism familiar from Fiennes' work in The English Patient, and here he's reunited old Minghella alumnus Kristin Scott Thomas. She's graduated from love interest to the mum of the love interest, Catherine Ternan, a woman who may have a thing or two to say about the novelist's controlling ways.

滬江娛樂：本片的故事架構(gòu)與范恩斯之前參演的《英國(guó)病人》（The English Patient）略有相似之處。當(dāng)年與他共同參演安東尼·明格拉（Anthony Minghella）執(zhí)導(dǎo)的《英國(guó)病人》的克莉絲汀·斯科特·托馬斯（ Kristin Scott Thomas）也將在本片里與范恩斯再度合作。不過這次，她扮演的角色從戀愛對(duì)象升級(jí)為戀愛對(duì)象的母親。她將扮演特南的媽媽——?jiǎng)P瑟琳·特南（Catherine Terna），她對(duì)狄更斯狂熱的控制欲了解很深。