Just as she was getting more emotional and scared, so was I. The sense of dread and fear — look at her quivering lip — is all over her adorable face. Fortunately, the experience ultimately was not traumatic for Lejeune, and she can laugh about it today.
She had been discovered by Pakula at a New York City Polish foundation, where her grandmother was a member, and was cast not only for her credible resemblance to Streep but also for her attitude. Despite that somewhat rude introduction, Lejeune and Streep hit it off, and the young actress spent a month in the former Yugoslavia making the film.
Mostly, though, Lejeune was there to bond with Streep so that the final scene would feel authentic. I felt safe with her. Edit page. Top Gap. See more gaps ». Create a list ». War soldiers. Netflix watchlist. Nathan and Sophie had a volatile relationship with both intense sexual passion and violent arguments in which Nathan seemed to be both physically and emotionally abusive towards Sophie.
Stingo quickly began to spend most of his time with the couple. His two other preoccupations were the novel he was writing, about the tragic life and death of a beautiful young woman, and his hopes of finding a woman willing to sleep with him.
Stingo also nursed a crush on the beautiful Sophie and began to learn more about her past. Sophie told him aspects of her past in fragmented and non-linear ways, and Stingo explains that Sophie sometimes left out important information that she only revealed later. Sophie grew up well educated and privileged in Poland.
Her father was a professor, and Sophie married another academic at a young age. At first, Sophie claims her father was a liberal man who tried to advocate for Polish Jews, but she later admits that he was a harsh, repressive, and fiercely anti-Semitic man. He forced Sophie to help him prepare and distribute pamphlets advocating for the extermination of Jewish people.
Both men died in a prison camp only months later. After these deaths, Sophie and her mother moved to Warsaw in and lived there for three years. During this time, Sophie worked in a factory and became friends with a woman named Wanda, who was active in the Polish Resistance.
She is given an impossible choice: pick one to live while the other is gassed, or else watch both die. For Sophie, there is no best option, and even not making a choice carries a heavy consequence.
The title and situation it represents became an analogy for choices that are similarly difficult for the person making them. Since the publication of the book and the release of the film, this phrase has experienced broadening in meaning. It can now refer to any life-and-death decision with no good outcomes, as in the original novel.
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