Juliet: Juliet is first introduced as Ben's reluctant lackey in his dealings with the survivors. We later learn through flashbacks that before coming to the island she was a ground breaking medical researcher, who came from a broken home, and a dysfunctional marriage. It was her medical research, restoring her sister's reproductive system after years of chemotherapy, that brought her to the attention of Ben. Under the guise of a fake medical research company, Richard Alpert recruits her for what is supposed to be a six month job. Following her arrival she learns that women on the Island die sometime during pregnancy, and it will be her job to solve this problem. She quickly learns that this medical abnormality is unsolvable, but Ben won't let her leave and keeps her on the island against her will. It is then revealed that Ben has been harboring feelings for Juliet that go unreciprocated. Following the crash, Juliet eventually shacks up with the survivors, where she develops feelings for Jack, and then falls in love with Sawyer. A constant aspect of Juliet's character is her love interests feelings for another woman, her first husbands unscrupulous affairs, Goodwin Stanhope's apparent interest in Ana Lucia, Jack's for Kate and his ex-wife, and finally Sawyer's deeply harbored love for Kate. Because of this, Juliet is very insecure and generally keeps her emotions guarded. Despite this she has a very warm personality when she does fall in love. Vivien Leigh would make an excellent Juliet. She could display the despair that Juliet often feels over her love travails, and struggles with the Island's fertility crisis, very well. Leigh certainly can play broken hearted as evident in Gone With the Wind, That Hamilton Woman, Etc. She would already have very good chemistry with Claude Raines, and I imagine she would play very well off actors of Fonda and Mitchum's caliber. And an actress of her talents could
easily break her own typecast for the other aspects of Juliet's
character. It would also just be great to see Vivien Leigh play a
character who feels subdued by forces outside of her control. She
typically only played women who despite evidence to the contrary always
believed themselves to be in control of their worlds. AND Also! Who wouldn't want to see Vivien Leigh as a grease monkey?
Juliet: Juliet is first introduced as Ben's reluctant lackey in his dealings with the survivors. We later learn through flashbacks that before coming to the island she was a ground breaking medical researcher, who came from a broken home, and a dysfunctional marriage. It was her medical research, restoring her sister's reproductive system after years of chemotherapy, that brought her to the attention of Ben. Under the guise of a fake medical research company, Richard Alpert recruits her for what is supposed to be a six month job. Following her arrival she learns that women on the Island die sometime during pregnancy, and it will be her job to solve this problem. She quickly learns that this medical abnormality is unsolvable, but Ben won't let her leave and keeps her on the island against her will. It is then revealed that Ben has been harboring feelings for Juliet that go unreciprocated. Following the crash, Juliet eventually shacks up with the survivors, where she develops feelings for Jack, and then falls in love with Sawyer. A constant aspect of Juliet's character is her love interests feelings for another woman, her first husbands unscrupulous affairs, Goodwin Stanhope's apparent interest in Ana Lucia, Jack's for Kate and his ex-wife, and finally Sawyer's deeply harbored love for Kate. Because of this, Juliet is very insecure and generally keeps her emotions guarded. Despite this she has a very warm personality when she does fall in love. Vivien Leigh would make an excellent Juliet. She could display the despair that Juliet often feels over her love travails, and struggles with the Island's fertility crisis, very well. Leigh certainly can play broken hearted as evident in Gone With the Wind, That Hamilton Woman, Etc. She would already have very good chemistry with Claude Raines, and I imagine she would play very well off actors of Fonda and Mitchum's caliber. And an actress of her talents could
easily break her own typecast for the other aspects of Juliet's
character. It would also just be great to see Vivien Leigh play a
character who feels subdued by forces outside of her control. She
typically only played women who despite evidence to the contrary always
believed themselves to be in control of their worlds. AND Also! Who wouldn't want to see Vivien Leigh as a grease monkey?
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