supports HTML5 videoKate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan are the height of romance in the trailer for their new historical drama, Ammonite.
Set in the 1840s, Kate plays real-life pioneering paleontologist Mary Anning, while Saoirse portrays Charlotte Murchison, a wealthy woman with ill health.Charlotte comes to live by the sea to recuperate and becomes Mary’s nursemaid, under her husband Roderick’s [James McArdle] instruction. ‘My wife… she suffers from melancholia.
I want her to walk the shoreline with you. Learn from you,’ Roderick explains. ‘I’m not looking for an apprentice,’ a suspicious Mary replies.Despite her reluctance, Mary and Charlotte end up walking the moody coast of west Dorset together and uncover brilliant finds from the Jurassic.
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