![]() ![]() ![]() “We wanted to explore as much of Louisa’s real story as we could,” Ronan says. … It becomes part of you, in a profound way.” “When you live through a book, it almost becomes the landscape of your inner life. (Her agent pointed this out to her, Gerwig tells me.) “This feels like autobiography,” Gerwig says. Still, Little Women might be even more personal to the director. ![]() Gerwig based that film on her own life, and Ronan’s character on herself. Now, Gerwig has created her own Jo for the screen in Saoirse Ronan, who also starred in Gerwig’s debut as a solo director, 2017’s Oscar-nominated Lady Bird. In film, Katharine Hepburn played Jo in 1933 Winona Ryder, in 1994. Ursula Le Guin says that Alcott’s Jo made writing as a girl feel possible. Simone de Beauvoir, born in 1908, pretended as a child that she was Jo-Alcott’s protagonist and stand-in, a determined, stubborn tomboy with a flair for writing. Little Women is one of the most popular books in the history of American letters after the first volume sold out its initial run of 2,000 copies in 1868, the novel has never been out of print. In that, Gerwig has had plenty of company. “It must have been read to me,” she says when I ask for her earliest memories of author Louisa May Alcott’s classic tale of four girls imagining a world beyond their humble surroundings outside Civil War–era Boston.“I always knew who Jo March was,” Gerwig continues. Greta Gerwig doesn’t remember reading Little Women for the first time. ![]()
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