Can Sex With a Minor Be Consensual? 'An Education' Takes Up the Question
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With director Roman Polanski's recent arrest, child-sex cases have dominated the headlines.
In Polanski's case, the sex was not consensual and drugs were involved, whereas the opposite is true in the new movie "An Education," starring Carey Mulligan.
The film's premise: A 16-year-old precocious London schoolgirl named Jenny meets David (Peter Sarsgaard), a man twice her age, and decides to lose her virginity to him on her 17th birthday. The subject is handled sensitively by Danish director Lone Scherfig and British screenwriter Nick Hornby.
While Polanski was not on the mind of best-selling novelist Hornby when he wrote the screenplay, none of the cast members has been able to escape the comparison.
"It came up a lot last week," Mulligan said in an interview with ABC News Now's "Popcorn With Peter Travers."
"We never thought about it. There's a line at the end of the film when [co-star] Sally Hawkins says to me. 'You're just a child' and Nick told me he now wishes he hadn't put it in."
"An Education" originated from a true story. Journalist Lynn Barber wrote an article in Granta magazine, describing her affair with a man in his 30s when she was a schoolgirl in the early 1960s. Hornby happened to read the article and the rest is history.
In Polanski's case, the sex was not consensual and drugs were involved, whereas the opposite is true in the new movie "An Education," starring Carey Mulligan.
The film's premise: A 16-year-old precocious London schoolgirl named Jenny meets David (Peter Sarsgaard), a man twice her age, and decides to lose her virginity to him on her 17th birthday. The subject is handled sensitively by Danish director Lone Scherfig and British screenwriter Nick Hornby.
While Polanski was not on the mind of best-selling novelist Hornby when he wrote the screenplay, none of the cast members has been able to escape the comparison.
"It came up a lot last week," Mulligan said in an interview with ABC News Now's "Popcorn With Peter Travers."
"We never thought about it. There's a line at the end of the film when [co-star] Sally Hawkins says to me. 'You're just a child' and Nick told me he now wishes he hadn't put it in."
"An Education" originated from a true story. Journalist Lynn Barber wrote an article in Granta magazine, describing her affair with a man in his 30s when she was a schoolgirl in the early 1960s. Hornby happened to read the article and the rest is history.
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