The gamin Gavroche puts in a strong plea for mercy, and his sister Eponine, if Hugo had chosen to take more trouble with her, might have been a great, and is actually the most interesting, character. While he is searching for a new weapon, a soldier makes it inside the barricade and aims at Marius. They live next door to the apartment of Marius Pontmercy. The great thing about this was, like, even though my audition process was pretty hardcore, so was everyone’s. Fetches Valjean. She must not waste her life: the child playing at her feet, the tool, or the bench in the garden. Ãponine Thénardier (/ËeɪpoÊËniËn teɪËnÉËrdiËeɪ/; French: [epÉnin tenaÊdje]), also referred to as the "Jondrette girl", is a fictional character in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. What WAS that stuff? We’ve all had unrequited love, where you love someone and they don’t love you back. Ãponine notices this and is surprised and happy that he said her name. She tells him she is dying and that she has taken the bullet for him. How do you make it sound fresh when it’s so poetic? How does Eponine get her father's gang to stop robbing Valjean's house? Ãponine first attempts to distract their attention by giving them friendly greetings. In the novel itâs especially terrible, as she convinces Marius to go to the barricade because she wants him to die with her there â if she canât have him, no one else can. The musical omits this. Although you can admire and respect all those incredible performances like those two women, you’ve got to do your own thing. Amanda (Seyfried) is so much fun! The musical gives a pointedly sympathetic depiction of Ãponine, which has made her one of the show's most popular characters. The life chosen is simply not his or her own. Ãponine then grabs Marius by the arm and they both run off. She is still wearing her disguise. There are many honorable aspects to Eponine. First in 1815 as the spoiled child of the crooked inn owners, the Thénardiers (played by Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen), and then in 1832 as a young woman whose life has gotten worse. No! After she does this, she asks Mabeuf of Marius' current whereabouts, and he tells her. But Hugo and Les Misérables don’t care about giving audiences something nice and pleasant, and frankly, having a crush that doesn’t like you back is the very least of anyone’s problems in 19th century France. In the novel, she and Marius are already at the barricades, and she blocks a soldier's shot meant for Marius. In her life of darkness is this beam of light in the form of one young beautiful student Marius. T he mother-of-four - whose design studio is in her Kensington home - said it remains a mystery how Kate discovered her. How I learned to live life on my own terms. In the novel, it is mentioned that Ãponine drinks. There was just one rain machine over my head. I remember just being so moved by it. I don’t actually know what that was about. There was this thing that would happen on the set that one by one you’d hear mumbles, like “Did you hear ‘I Dreamed a Dream’?” And then “On My Own,” and so on. Ãponine finds Marius in a park called "The Field of the Lark". When I heard they were making it I was in North Carolina playing a Texan meth addict cowboy [in Hick]. In the musical, Ãponine, her parents, and Patron-Minette are not arrested after the ambush of Valjean, and the tryst with Montparnasse never happens. Samantha Barks plays this older version of Eponine, as a kind of tragic cool girl. (Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV) Good works most definitely have a place in the life of a Christian. She goes in the apartment, but does not inspect it. She "became the symbol of great patriotism and virtue" by protecting her husband for many years and by choosing to die with him when he was finally captured. The fetus, like the comatose, the Siamese twin, and the Violinist, lack the ability to make rational choices, express desires, and pursue survival. How droll it is! It was very awkward because at the first audition he was like “you sing?” And I was like, “well I sort of sing.”. Ãponine takes the letter with no intention of delivering it. The two sisters pass Marius while running away from the police, unaware that they dropped their package of forged letters begging for alms. Marius makes Ãponine swear not to tell her father the address, and calls her by her name. At the time of her death in the musical, no speculation is made at first how and where Ãponine is injured. Tribal values hung over Wakefield like a tornado-producing dark cloud that could drop a twister upon you at any moment. Victor Hugo, in naming one of his central heroines of Les Miserables after Saint Eponine was likely invoking this obscure love story from Plutarch about the wife who gives up everything and eventually sacrifices her own life out of love and devotion to her ⦠It was an out of body experience. Pitying her, Marius gives her five francs, and she thanks him in a chain of argot. Ãponine looks around Marius' room and goes to look at Marius' mirror while singing to herself. There is no reference of Marius and the Thénardier family living in apartments, for the musical shows them interacting with each other on the streets. But yet, she dies trying to ⦠Up to this point, Iphigeneia has begged ferociously for her father to change his mind and spare her lifeâbut now, she essentially gives up and resigns herself to being sacrificed for the greater good. Not only was I singing this song over and over and over again, but I was in the freezing rain too. Ãponine secretly watches Marius each time he goes to visit Cosette. A Les Miserables Character Evaluation . Their doll is "very much faded, and very old and broken". Notably though, the musical's 2012 film adaptation instead followed the novel and had Gavroche deliver the letter while Valjean warns him to stay away from danger. Chaya Abramowicz. She sadly lets the coin fall to the ground, saying she does not want his money. Fantine asks the Thénardiers to take care of Cosette while she goes to look for work in her home town. She had "the form of an unripe young girl and the look of a corrupted old woman; fifty years joined with fifteen; one of those beings who are both feeble and horrible at once, and who make those shudder whom they do not make weep". We’d have these situations where we were like, “Me too! Later on your ribs start uncontrollably shaking, and you’re like “body, calm down! She learns that Chaya is a relative from her past. So many iconic people have played the role and there are so many renditions that you can’t imitate or mimic. She is played by two actors, a young girl for Young Ãponine in the Montfermeil scenes, and by a young woman for the adolescent Ãponine in the later Parisian scenes. Marius is a young man who’s become estranged from his wealthy grandfather due to his radical political views. Eddie Redmayne: My mom and dad took me and my brother to see Les Mis when I was about 8, and I basically hero-worshipped Gavroche. Cosette joins the two sisters and the three play together. They are both next seen a moment later with. When did your love of musicals begin? In an effort to make his family look poorer, Thénardier orders Azelma to punch out the window, which she does, cutting her hand open. They’re the couple that never was. Seeing that Ãponine is serious in her threat, the men leave, and she cautiously follows them. She's also got some backbone. – Eponine, the patron saint of broken-hearted girls everywhere, – Her first film experience and working with Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, and Anne Hathaway, – The not-so-glorious feeling of singing “On My Own” in the rain, – His X-Factor style audition process, – A set full of former Marius stars, and the torment of director Tom Hooper, – Love at first sight, and how Amanda Seyfried makes Cosette more sympathetic character. And then he put you down in the sewers too! But having somebody like Hugh as the foundation of it? Cosette, never having owned or played with a doll, quickly grabs it and attempts not to be noticed with it. She’s like, “So don’t speak.” And you can actually believe falling that quickly for someone that beautiful. The next day, Ãponine visits Marius at his apartment and gives him a letter from her father begging for money. So rather than a singing exercise, it involved holding your tongue out and getting the back of your tongue strengthened. Ãponine and Marius already know each other before Marius meets Cosette. Since Elizabeth I, he became a mate, and he would always come to see the plays that I was doing in London. She also admits to him: "And still when I saw him aiming at you, I put up my hand upon the muzzle of the musket. So it was lovely when we both got excited about the prospect of it. Screams. But of course nothing is that easy. This reasoning might be convincing if not for one problem. Eponine was the role I’d always wanted to play because I’d always wanted to sing that song. Disguised as a boy, she throws Valjean a note that says "remove". Upon returning to New Rochelle in the present, Hannah learns that Rivka and Aunt Eva are the same person. As the crime unfolds, Marius attempts to stop Thénardier by tossing the note Ãponine wrote earlier through a crack in the wall. In his 1862 novel Les Misérables, the French author Victor Hugo used the name for a character who also aspires to die with her own beloved in a revolution. But what was amazing is that no one has experience in this, and that’s what you have to remember. We are helpless, even to âhelpâ God save us. I just wanted to talk about girly things like cupcakes and stuff. I’m on Twitter and I get a lot of tweets saying, “I’m having such an Eponine day.” Or they’ll say “I’m listening to ‘On My Own’ and it’s totally summing up my day,” and I’m like, “It’ll be okay!”. In the original stage show, Ãponine is fatally shot as she returns to the barricades. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. But again, Hugh Jackman never complains, so you’re certainly not allowed to complain. She decides to stop Cosette and Valjean from being burgled because she knows it would hurt Marius, not because sheâs met them and likes them. Was that it? During the 1823 Christmas fair, Ãponine and Azelma admire a big, beautiful and expensive doll in a shop window. With her dying breath, Ãponine says: "And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you." © Copyright 2021 Meredith Corporation. It was apparently clay something, and you’re swimming in it for a day and a half, you know? He’s come from a privileged background, but he wants to do good. I’d spent a few weeks on the barricade with just the guys, so by the time she arrived for “A Heart Full of Love” I was so excited to have another female on set! Were Eponine or Lais! The player either can sacrifice Hannah to try to save at least one of the Washington sisters or take their chances with the cliff and hope the damage isn't too bad. He compares her to the character of La Maheude in Ãmile Zola's novel Germinal, who also contemplates an alternative life, and "hypothetically thinks about the possibility that they could have been lovers". And “On My Own” sums it up. Marius informs Javert in the hope of obstructing their plan. And Alastair was told me that he’d found this idea that maybe Marius wrote poetry, and he almost had written it out before, so it’s like he’s reciting something. A satirical version of Ãponine also appears in the musical Spamalot as part of a contingent of stereotypically "French" stock characters who emerge from the castle of Guy De Lombard in order to inspect the Trojan Rabbit left behind by King Arthur and his knights. The crazy thing is, she instantly falls for him too. In the novel, she was shot through her hand first, and the bullet came out through her back. Valjean promises to return later with money. While in jail, Babet sends a letter to Ãponine ordering her to investigate a house at the Rue Plumet. I never went to London my whole life. Next Page: Eddie Redmayne talks about the X-Factor style audition process…. She asks him to lay her on his knees, and then reveals to Marius that it was she who led him to the barricades, hoping that the two of them would die together. [2] Kathryn M. Grossman also identifies the redemptive aspect of the character and the parallel with Fantine: "In a much different way [from Fantine], Eponine's devotion to Marius saves her from reiterating the sins of her parents. There are some notable plot differences in the musical adaptation. And my life, seems to start as if something is over and something has scarcely begun.”. Every RuPaul's Drag Race season 13 runway look, ranked, Spread the love with EW's Valentine's Day gift guide, The Masked Dancer revealed: Every unmasked celebrity on season 1. I would just ask if I was struggling. In the musical people are always like “Why don’t you just! Marius still commands her not to tell her father, and she finally promises. After Marius returns, Thénardier orders Ãponine to search Mariusâ apartment to see if he is there. Distraught over the loss of Cosette, Marius goes to the barricade, armed with the two pistols Javert had given him, and uses them both during the fighting. On my Own. Offers may be subject to change without notice. Courfeyrac appears and tells her he does not know Marius' whereabouts. She finds solace in her love for Marius (Redmayne), the handsome student revolutionary who never returns the feelings. What was it like getting to work with him again? He’s got so much musical theater experience and so much film experience. I couldn’t think of anyone better. My brother and I would occasionally sing the “Confrontation” bit. ‘Les Misérables’: First interviews with Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway — EW EXCLUSIVE, ‘Les Misérables’: Five new clips from the musical — VIDEO, ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and ‘Les Misérables’ storm tight Oscar race, Updated December 14, 2012 at 11:00 AM EST, 'Les Miserables': Reigniting the eternal heartache of Eponine and Marius. They were so lovely. To impress him, she proves that she is literate by reading aloud a passage from one of his books and writing "The cognes (police) are here" on a piece of paper. What was wonderful about getting this film was that you then get the best singing teacher in the world who helps you … get yourself to a place where you can do it. Still Turning Heads. When I was a young boy in small-town Nebraska, I knew what everyone expected from me. Me and Annie love singing together too. Eponine Quotes in Les Miserables The Les Miserables quotes below are all either spoken by Eponine or refer to Eponine. Why should i save someone life, when they won't save mine. She was always the theater nerd’s first experience with unrequited love. But it was because I wanted to die before you." Locks the gate. She wears dirty and tattered clothing, consisting solely of a chemise and a skirt. Also we were all kind of losing a lot of weight for the film, so we’d all be there to support each other on that and talk about diets and exercise regimes. So much of what the singing teacher made us do was a muscular thing on your throat. I think he sees her as a little sister. [7] Dedicated to Hugo, the poem describes broken-down former beauties:[8], (These dislocated wrecks were women once, She tries to have a conversation with him, but he is unresponsive. The character is introduced as a spoiled and pampered child, but appears later in the novel as a ragged and impoverished teenager who speaks in the argot of the Parisian streets, while retaining vestiges of her former charm and innocence. When you get to see it, Eponine looks like a freezing cold shivering girl and it’s true, she was. They are not related at all, but they grow up together. She’s a good friend of mine, actually. Paige Smallwood also impresses as Eponine, who provides a clear and strong pop belt to the unrequited love song "On My Own." I always wanted to be Eponine. She was courageous, she helped Marius find Cosette as well as take a bullet for him. SELF-SACRIFICE TO SAVE THE LIFE OF ANOTHER 913. She’s basically saying “I have nothing in my life. The 2012 film adaptation however followed the novel more closely with Marius only recognising her after she is shot. Ãponine dies and Marius kisses her on the forehead as he had promised as "a thoughtful and gentle farewell to an unhappy soul". Then, she meets the LOVE of her LIFE, and he never pays her an ounce of attention. Did you have to relearn everything? I’d sing Javert and he’d sing Valjean…but not quite as well as Hugh and Russell did it. I felt like for film “Empty Chairs and Empty Tables” would have to be sung a different way. Unique Womenswear Made in London. Eponine and Fantine don’t overlap in time in Les Mis. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Hugo depicts Ãponine again in 1832. It was the fact that your costume is wet and it’s freezing. But biggest challenge wasn’t the rain dripping down your face. There’s that amazing moment in “A Heart Full of Love” where Marius goes [singing], “I don’t know what to say.” And she goes, “Then make no sound.” She’s so calm in it. I was like “I don’t know what they’re going to be like! When that fails, she threatens to scream and alert the police and the neighborhood. It was the heaviest rain I’d ever been in. So there was this sort of instant bond because we had all gone through the mill to get the parts. Ãponine tells Marius that she sometimes goes to the theatre, that he is handsome, and mentions that she has noticed him a number of times before. Did Frances or Lea give you any advice for playing Eponine? He returns a moment later and gives it to Cosette. Cosette quickly writes to tell Marius and pays Ãponine, whom she mistakes for a workman, to deliver the letter to Marius. Yes, several of them. Had you kept up? Therefore, because one is in ignorance about whose âblood is redder,â one is not in a position to exchange the life of a victim for oneâs own. She once again looks at herself in Marius' mirror and sings. You sang in a choir at Eton. It was…I don’t know what it was. Éponine Thénardier , also referred to as the "Jondrette girl", is a fictional character in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. Eponine is so sexy!” But what I love is the quiet strength that Amanda brings to Cosette. Instead, sheâll willingly give her life so that the people of Greece can defeat the Trojan army and restore pride to their nation. But Cosetteâthe cosseted CosetteâHugo did not know our word or he would have seen the dangerâis merely a pretty and rather selfish little doll, and her precious lover Marius is almost ineffable. Amanda manages to give weight to a part that has so little on the page of real substance. In the novel, she, In the novel, after Marius discovers that Valjean and Cosette have moved from the Rue Plumet, Ãponine anonymously tells Marius that the other students are waiting for him at the barricades, and he goes there. Eponine is a fictional character from the story of Les Miserables, who often goes unnoticed by both the characters in the story and the audience.Think of her as the girl in a love triangle who loves the man who loves another. EW already talked to Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman about the roles of Fantine and Jean Valjean, now we hear what supporting actors Samantha Barks (a newcomer to film who played the role in London) and Eddie Redmayne (best known for My Week with Marilyn) had to say about creating that eternal long, lost love between Eponine and Marius. You played Eponine for a year in London and then participated in the 25th Anniversary show. [6], The two sisters were originally named Palmyre and Malvina, but in 1860 Hugo changed them in the drafts of the novel. It wasn’t like anything I had ever heard or seen before. In the musical, Ãponine screams to scare away her father and the bandits from robbing Valjean's house. As in Romantic opera: "The dying Eponine recounts her long-held feeling of love for Marius, feelings she interprets as both moral and physical defects making her unworthy." In the musical Marius sees Ãponine dressed as a boy before the insurrection starts, while in the novel he only recognizes her after she is shot. I don’t think so. I so instantly connected with everyone in very different ways. It’s so full on, and so poetic. She spends her whole life in (basically) a whore house disguised as a "motel." The song is about how her world will be without him, and his life without her. After fifteen minutes, Ãponine and Azelma discover that Cosette has taken their doll and tell their mother, who yells at Cosette. I loved singing when I was a kid and then I did it a little bit at school and then at college, and then kind of stopped when acting became what I was interested in. In the novel, Mabeuf was the first to die and is mourned, and only Marius is with Ãponine during and after her own death. I was overwhelmed because I’d never done film before. Est. I enjoy singing. Did you get to interact with Anne Hathaway at all? Your big number, “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables,” came rather late in production. 2011. When he returns to his room, Ãponine asks what is troubling him and offers to assist him. I just wanted to be him. That night, they play with their own doll, while ignoring Cosette. The name "Ãponine" derives from the ancient Gaul Epponina, wife of Julius Sabinus, who rebelled against the Roman empire. One time, she tries to talk to him, but for the first time she is at a loss for words. Ãponine and Marius, in the musical, appear to be best friends, and he is genuinely heartbroken and overcome with grief by her death; while in the novel Marius does not care much about her, although he is still polite to her in the novel and expresses concern for her as she dies. This is the first time anyone’s ever done this so although you’ve got people like Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe who have so much film experience, and I have so much musical theater experience, none of us had ever experienced the live musical theater in a film, so we were all there to help each other. Life is but the happiness ⦠She still loves her brother Gavroche. As she takes him to the house, she reminds him that he promised to give her something in return for finding Cosette, and he offers her his last five-franc coin. Now, Les Miserables directly translates to âThe Miserableâ in English, meaning the whole ⦠Ãponine leaves. After Ãponine leaves, Marius observes her and her family in their apartment next door. False. Marius is overjoyed, while Ãponine is saddened by his reaction. Does your ⦠"[3], George Saintsbury argued that Ãponine is the most interesting character in the novel, but that Hugo, like Marius, did not take enough notice of her:[4]. We were like, “Can we just sing together always?” It was really fun. After Marius takes the letter, Ãponine requests that he promise to kiss her on the forehead after she dies, which he agrees to do. Frances Ruffelle originated the role of Eponine on stage in London and she has a cameo in the film as a prostitute. And now you’re this generation’s Eponine. I was so excited to see her on screen! After six weeks of not finding Marius, she visits the churchwarden Mabeuf and offers to water his garden. But some of the stuff is so poetic. It kind of moved me in ways I didn’t think anything could move me before. Ãponine only appears as a child in the number "Castle on a Cloud", and does not witness Valjean giving Cosette a doll. Fortunately, I was green enough not to realize it till about day six. Itâs a gift â a FREE gift. But they couldn’t have been more supportive and generous. They then cast the doll aside to play with a kitten. Next Page: The miserable experience of singing in the freezing rain…. In the novel, Ãponine is missing a few teeth. Next Page: Her first film experience and working with Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, and Anne Hathaway…. they are souls.). This element of surrender is seen in the single-minded devotion of the Jesus who came to do the will of the One who sent Him and to complete His work (John 4:34). She then tells Marius that she sometimes walks by herself at night, how she and her family lived under the arches of bridges the previous winter, how she contemplated drowning herself and that she had hallucinations due to lack of nourishment. Eponine, after all, has the torch song for all teenage girls suffering from unrequited love, the show-stopping âOn My Own,â sung here by the incomparable Lea Salonga. As a character in the novel and the musical, Eponine has a far more interesting storyline, background, and demise. But it did feel like a full on work out to get there! She is later caught and joins Azelma in prison. Pretty much all of Eponineâs decisions are influence by her love life. him happy. In the novel, Gavroche is sent to deliver it after Ãponine's death. Eponine and Marius are not quite star-crossed lovers. There is a general charm and kindness about Eponine and that's how a lot of people see her, but they don't have to slander Cosette just because she got the guy and the poor girl didn't. Adaptational Villainy: TV Melisandre is considerably more callous than her book counterpart.She mocks the death of Davos's son, instead of expressing regret about it, shows no regret about having to sacrifice Gendry, does not offer Cressen a chance to save himself after he tries to poison her, pushes Stannis to sacrifice Shireen, and later keeps her own ⦠She is missing a few teeth, is barefoot, has tangled hair, bony shoulders, and heavy brooding drooping eyes, while the "grace of her youth was still struggling against the hideous old age brought on by debauchery and poverty" and has only a trace of beauty lingering upon her face. NEXT> 7. In the novel itâs especially terrible, as she convinces Marius to go to the barricade because she wants him to die with her there â if she canât have him, no one else can. And I think it’s an interesting theme, that love can give you strength. For the first time, Ãponine and Azelma "looked upon Cosette with envy". She then tells him that she knows where Cosette lives, hoping to impress him and make It’s one of those moments where I sat there and thought, oh this will be interesting to see how that transfers to film. She sings On My Own, because when Cosette and Eponine are older, Cosette falls in love with a boy named Marius, who Eponine also loves. Had you met her before? She then goes to the Rue Plumet, expecting Marius to visit Cosette at his usual time. That was really helpful. Marius only recognizes her later, when she is lying at his feet. In the novel, Ãponine is described and seen delivering letters, including forgeries from her father to wealthy people, anonymously throwing a note to Valjean, and handing Marius a letter from Cosette. [5] The name was quite common among both Republicans and Bonapartists in post-Revolutionary France. In the musical, Ãponine, her parents and Patron-Minette pass on their messages verbally to each other, and the only note-passing that she does is during her interaction with Valjean when he intercepts Marius' letter to Cosette. [7] He may have used the name Ãponine because of Charles Baudelaire's poem Les Petites Vieilles (Little Old Ladies) from Les Fleurs du Mal. Throughout the musical, the ragged, independent, and tragic Ãponine is starkly contrasted with the demure, innocent, and sheltered Cosette. However, in the musical's 2012 film adaptation and in the 2014 Broadway revival, Ãponine is injured in the same manner as the book. hunchbacked freaks, And so I’m like, how do you make that sound new?
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