ms. everdene, your neighbor. want very much to have you as my wife. >> i don't think i've ever seen a face as beautiful as yours. >> you should have nothing to do with her. >> don't listen to him. don't believe it. >> why? it is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language cheefl made by men to express theirs. >> i'm so foolish to think i might stand a chance. one day i will leave here. you can be sure of that. >> ms. everdene will never marry you. >> rose: i am pleased to have carey mulligan back at this table. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: so much to talk about. that film but also look at this, everywhere i look, there you are -- vogue magazine, ravishing carey mulligan is the season's most romantic movie and then the "wall street journal." but mostly on broadway "skylight." david hare said about you if i was starting a national theater with an acting company like olivier had i'd start around her. that would be a nice adventure, wouldn't it? >> that would be such a good adventure. i'd do it with

ms. everdene, i wanted to ask -- would you like to marry me? i've never asked anyone before. >> no. should hope not >> perhaps i -- perhaps i should leave. >> there are things to consider. >> is someone waiting for you? >> no, but that does not mean i will marry you. >> good day to you, then. ♪ charlie: you said it's shocking how real bathsheba is. what is it about her realness? is it the strength? is it the toughness, is it the independence? carey: i think she feels real to me and to a modern-day audience. at the time, the book and the characters were widely criticized because that was so against the grain and how women were not meant to behave. i think they said the only believable characters in the book were the sheep because they thought this woman could not be real. if you read it now, it's amazing. there are whole passages that dive into her mind in an interesting way. those thought processes are very authentic. charlie: how do you translate that to the screen? carey: it's difficult. it's a two-hour adaptation of an epic novel. that's the sort of great challenge of adapting th