Elizabeth Debicki, Gemma Arterton Seduce With Words in Vita & Virginia

In an exclusive clip from the film about the affair between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, the women plan to steal away together.

Tracy E. Gilchrist

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP of Editorial and Special Projects at equalpride. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.

Read Full Bio

Tracy E. Gilchrist

August 27 2019 3:27 AM EST

August 27 2019 4:19 PM EST

Sorry to interrupt...
But we wanted to take a moment to thank you for reading. Your support makes original LGBTQ+ reporting possible. Help us hold Trump accountable.

One-time Monthly

$19.67 $50 Other

$5 $19.67 $50

The new film Vita and Virginia, about the years-long love affair between writers Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, is currently out in New York City and will drop in Los Angeles and VOD Friday.

Elizabeth Debicki (Widows, The Night Manager) stars as the great modernist, feminist writer Virginia, and Gemma Arterton (who executive-produced the film) as poet and novelist Vita.

Replete with feminist treatises, alternately furtive and long-held looks, lingering touches, and the click-clack of the typewriter, Vita and Virginia, from director Chanya Button, is catnip for literary-minded queer women.

Based on the love letters Vita and Virginia penned to one another for years, the story also focuses on how Vita became the muse for Virginia's epic novel Orlando, about a truly gender-fluid aristocrat.

In the exclusive clip below, Vita approaches Virginia after having read the novel.

"I have fallen in love with your vision of me," Vita says.

"I have lived in you for so long that now I see you, I wonder, do you exist, or have I made you up," Virginia queries.

"I feel terribly real right now," Vita says.

"I won't be loved in only a fictitious world," she continues, before asking Virginia to steal away with her for a bit.