 As with her "Heavenly Creatures" part, Winslet's roles in these films were those of women with a "mad edge".In Michael Winterbottom's "Jude", based on the novel "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy, she played Sue Bridehead, a young woman with suffragette leanings who falls in love with her cousin, Jude (played by Christopher Eccleston).Roger Ebert believed the part allowed Winslet to display her acting range, and praised her for the defiance she brought to the role.