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Where's he going to look now? It's almost like she is dying, like Juliet, except that Will, her Romeo, chooses to live instead. Yep, there's a woman underneath all that. Will rushes home to write new scenes, using Viola (who, unbeknownst to Will, is his Romeo) as inspiration for his Juliet. Viola isn't playing Juliet (at least not until the end.) She is playing Romeo.
And she gets to be a woman in bed with Will and a man on stage. etc. When Mr. Tilney tries to get the Curtain shut down too, for having a woman on stage, the Queen lies for Viola, saying that Viola is a man, Thomas Kent, who is just really really good at looking like a woman.
Most importantly, the Queen declares that a playwright has finally portrayed true love, cementing Romeo and Juliet's reputation as a timeless play.
There he meets Viola, who is simply gorgeous (and female), and Will falls hard for her. He can't put an ad on Craigslist looking for a muse. She has to pass as a man, which she does—at least in the context of the movie, even if, to us, she looks like Gwyneth with a goatee. Viola wants to be an actor in a time where women aren't allowed on stage.
However, Viola is engaged (against her will) to Lord Wessex, who wants to know why this scrawny little writer keeps dancing with his woman. Breaking laws often does come back to bite you in the end...
Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow)
Character Analysis
Roses are Red, Viola is Blue
Viola de Lesseps has the 16th Century equivalent of #firstworldproblems.
But Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou so sad?
Lord Wessex has decided to marry Viola in two weeks and take her to the Colony of Virginia. Soon she’ll be married off and will be expected to run an aristocratic household.
With the role reversal, it's like Viola is pretending to be Shakespeare in love with herself.
Viola has undeniable chemistry with the young, poetic Shakespeare. Viola is wed to Lord Wessex, but she learns that the play is being performed at a different theatre, the Curtain, and she sneaks away to watch it.
We're backstage of the Rose, an Elizabethan theater, and there's more drama backstage than there is onstage.
She’d like to spend all her time in London’s streets and theaters, absorbing the culture of the masses.
Challenge… keeping her true sex hidden. A woman playing a woman. William Shakespeare, perhaps? If someone finds out she is a woman, then the law requires the theater to be closed for impurity.