Jane Eyre

Director Susanna White on casting Rochester:
"Rochester was really, really hard! I felt such a weight of responsibility because he's every woman's dream, and presumably every woman has a different notion of who Rochester is. I knew he had to be dark, but I knew had to have the emotional complexity. And that was the hardest thing, to find an actor who looked right, who could carry across the humor, the intelligence; who could be very dark, who could play depression, who could play lightness against that. And who would just be knock out gorgeous. And there's a handful of actors who can do that, and thank God we found Toby."


Welch, S. (Writer), & White, S. (Director). (2006). Jane Eyre [Television series]. In Santer, D. (Producer), Jane Eyre. United Kingdom: WGBH Productions for BBC; starring Ruth Wilson as Jane and Toby Stephens as Rochester.