Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1998) - "It's Too Late" scene

The most powerful scene in the A&E miniseries starring Justine Waddell and Oliver Milburn as Tess and Angel Clare. Very heartaching scene, beautifully acted.

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• 1998

[pinkdiamonde]

Wow. I've only watched the new version and this is SO different. I can see why they say this is the better version. In the same scene in the other one, Tess was yelling and Angel didn't say much of anything, lol. I like this one better. So much more emotion but subtley played.

[inbloombtfl]

Hi. I completely agree. Not to mention this version of the scene is pretty much verbatim to the book. None of that "I'm already dead" stuff. Too melodramatic for me.

[LibbyMaeBrown]

This is the best scene in the whole movie... I cried like a freaking baby, and I never do that! The way she's says "It's too late..."

Poor Tess. Angel broke her heart.

Alec was a bastard, but Angel was even worse. What a bloody selfish hypocrite! I love the book and this adaption, but they always make me so angry and depressed.

[131986zm]

this scene is bittersweet for me.

i hate that angel hurt her sooooooooooo badly

but the bastard had it coming.

what did you expect of her.

but i relent in the end and my heart breaks for tess, always tess.

great acting

[bluerosesteph]

It breaks my heart every single time.... saddest scene i've seen no exageration

[rees276]

Justine Waddell is my favourite Tess. She looks so delicate and vulnerable - and she is heartbreaking in these final scenes. eddie Redmayne is the only actor who

has given Angel any redeeming features on screen though. I felt sorry for him at the end of the recent BBC version, but Peter Firth and Oliver Milburn played him the way I found him in the novel - arrogant, self-righteous, smug, selfish, cruel...

[zephyriffic]

Just finished the book again - for the second time

[elizabethgaskelfan]

excuses excuses.

[stilladeline]

@LibbyMaeBrown Yes, and how ironic that his name is "Angel".

[bluerosesteph]

One of the saddest scenes I have ever seen on film... brilliant

[Muirmaiden]

@pinkdiamonde, I think Eddie is better suited to earlier period drama (The Other Boleyn Girl, Elizabeth: The Golden Age), I enjoyed his performances and believed in the characters he played - I felt he was miscast as Angel in the 2008 BBC adaptation of Tess - whether it was the way he was directed, his interpretation of the role or a combination of the two, he just didn't work as Angel for me - when he emoted he was good, but when it came to the dialogue he came across as dim-witted, IMO.

[fagusmil]

@rachray83 The 98 version looks like it's 68, boring and slow... 2008 is much better and convincing...

[rachray83]

@OuttaEgypt I disagree. The 2008 version of this scene was better. this scene was a little too calm. She says "I hate him" the same way she says the rest fo the lines. To me the 98 version, the actors seem like they are acting like the characters, where in the 2008 version the actors are living the lives of the characters, they became them. The 98 version makes me feel like I'm watching a play