This article suggests either Timothy Dalton or William Hurt.

One thing that you must have to do the romance between Jane and Rochester right is explained in this statement from the article:

What's so right about Wilson's Jane and Toby Stephens' virile, tormented Rochester is that their mutual erotic charge is matched by the teasing, bantering rapport of intellectual equals.

The teasing and bantering aspect which is in the book, is often completely missing from many adaptations - such as the Polly Teale adaptation.

Saturday, May 2, 2009