51�Թ�

This led to a humbling moment, when at 35 she was dressed in full Snow cosplay and heard an astounded little girl declare that she couldn’t possibly be the heroine because she was “so old.”

The heroine — daughter of a plantation owner — gets caught in the chaos and stumbles upon a group of formerly enslaved people from her father’s cotton fields.

That included some criticism of the casting of Rachel Zegler, who is of Colombian descent, as the heroine.

Jane Austen famously thought her main character wouldn't be a widely liked heroine, but Tunstall says she is often people's favourite character because of her honesty and depth.

In it, her young heroine remarks, “At ten, I couldn’t articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well.”