Emerald Fennell opens up on her 'Cinderella' challenge

Emerald Fennell enjoyed the challenge of finding Cinderella's personality when penning a new musical adaptation of the fairytale.

Fennell has joined hands with Andrew Lloyd-Webber on a new musical version of the classic fairytale and one of the first problems she encountered was how few defining traits the central character has, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

"Who was Cinderella exactly? Arguably the most famous heroine in literature, and I could hardly think of a single personality trait. She was very good at housework, very good at singing to small animals, very good at being meek and quiet and forbearing, but she wasn't exactly a thrill-ride of charisma," Fennell said.