The late-Victorian gothic examines society's obsession with youth and beauty through the eponymous anti-hero, who becomes consumed with his own image after posing for a portrait.
Already the subject of many an adaptation, Wilde's only published novel is being revisited for the BBC, with a new reading narrated by Bridgerton star Luke Thompson.
What drew you to The Picture of Dorian Gray for The Read?
Would you ever want to star in an adaptation of the novel?
Luke: Well, I just have! This job wasn’t a practise round for something else, I’d hate to watch someone just warming up..
Luke: We seem to live in a moralising world where everyone is very keen on deciding what’s good and bad. We like to think we have moved on from the Victorians, but maybe we’ve just dressed up our moralising differently. This story asks: what if what’s moral is not as important as what’s beautiful. It’s a pretty wild thought to entertain, when we are so obsessed with justifying what’s right, wrong, productive, healthy or useful, and we’re not comfortable with beauty just for the hell of it. We say it’s superficial . A part of us can’t stand that beauty doesn’t need explaining, that it’s profound, maybe more profound than morals. This thriller takes that idea to its craziest limit.
Luke: Well they’re very different worlds and characters, but I guess Benedict is by nature is uncertain, quite open to influence, and seems in his own gentle way to have been driven more by beauty than by moral codes.
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