#jane-austen

#jane-austen

I saw how similar Austen's family dynamics were to my own a couple of centuries down the line. When Austen's father stepped away from his post as a clergyman, it forced the family to leave their genteel rectory home for a series of ever more insecure living quarters.

The film uses Austen as more of an entry point into a broader, comfortingly clever story about a 21st-century woman who navigates familiar emotional dilemmas.

Tranter emphasized that when actors don period costumes, they often revert to speaking in posh accents, ignoring the diversity of voices from that era.

In the nearly 20 years since the film came out, the hand flex has become perhaps the defining beat from Wright's take on the novel.

"While most guys in the class believed themselves to be Captain Wentworth, I thought I was Anne Elliot, but quietly and secretly and not all the time."