Corset time for Jane Eyre
October 3, 2006 
The star of the BBC's new adaptation of Jane Eyre has revealed that shooting the drama in a corset had its moments, but was certainly a more pleasant experience today than it might have been in the past.
Ruth Wilson plays plain Jane Eyre, and found 13 weeks of shooting in Derbyshire distinctly hard work.
However, in an interview with the Sunday Times she revealed that spending 12 hours each day fully corseted helped her play the part of Jane.
"Corsets put you straight into character and they give you instant posture," she told the newspaper.
But the modern corset is an altogether more user-friendly item, than its whalebone Victorian counterpart which restricted breathing and could cause curvature of the spine and even displaced organs.
Pondering how romance flourished in the Victorian age of the corset, Ruth Wilson remarked: "Everyone must have really stunk, because they were doing stuff every day on horses, in hot weather. Yuck."
Fortunately horses in hot weather are not hurdles that the latter day corset wearer has to contend with.
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