(resonating music) - [Lindsay] Jane Digby was, in fact, a real woman who led an extraordinary life.
- Who was way ahead of her time.
Was married and divorced and didn't live the life that English society wanted her to live and ended up in Damascus, falling madly in love with a Syrian desert prince.
- It wasn't an easy part to cast because this is an incredible woman.
Someone that Fix could look up to.
Someone that Fix could become.
- I really, really wanted to do it and was really excited because I, you know, I've always wondered why her story hasn't been told.
She could race camels.
She speaks Arabic.
She was a bit of a warrior.
In this story, she meets a young woman and she recognizes this independent spirit traveling with two men, and she is young and she has also been so influenced by her powerful father.
- [Leonie] When she finds out what her father did to Jane Digby, Fix has to ask herself why she is a writer.
- So this is a huge turnaround for Fix's character.
You see an older woman encouraging her to live her own life.
That makes doing "Around the World in 80 Days" really spring into the present, you know, it's great.
(inspiring music)
