Shortly after the equine escapade, Bathsheba flatly turns down marital advances from Matthias Schoenaerts’s burly shepherd, Gabriel Oak.
Carey horses around with Hardy hunks!
Carey Mulligan loved being scandalous when playing Thomas Hardy’s heroine, Bathsheba Everdene.
The award-winning actress stars as Bathsheba in Thomas Vinterberg’s screen adaptation of Far From The Madding Crowd — and in the very first scene we see her racing through a wood on horseback, in a tailored leather jacket that instantly signals that this is a woman in control.
‘It was just so unheard of for a woman to ride full on like that, switching from side-saddle. Then she lies back and lets the tips of the branches touch her,’ Carey told me of the scene.
Shortly after the equine escapade, Bathsheba flatly turns down marital advances from Matthias Schoenaerts’s burly shepherd, Gabriel Oak.
Shortly after the equine escapade, Bathsheba flatly turns down marital advances from Matthias Schoenaerts’s burly shepherd, Gabriel Oak.