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English majors, rejoice! With the success of Britbox Another Bennet SisterNetflix coming soon pride and prejudice Miniseries and now streaming east of edenAnd Georgia Oakley’s new reason and emotion Now is the best time to be an Austen fan. Fandango correspondent Jacqueline Coley sits down with the cast. emotion We discuss upcoming features, modernizing Austen’s characters and creating period pieces.
spoiler reason and emotion If you haven’t read the 215-year-old novel yet, the story follows the three Dashwood sisters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, and their mother as they move from Sussex to a small cottage in Devon after their father’s death. The two older daughters, Eleanor and Marianne, experience love and heartbreak, which challenges Eleanor’s practical ‘sense’ and Marianne’s emotional ‘sensibility’.
“The beauty of the movie and the book is that it explores how different people bring out different aspects of you as you grow and fall in love,” explains Daisy Edgar-Jones, who plays Elinor. “The magical thing about the book and the movie is that the sisters gift each other with their emotions. Ultimately, this is a real-life journey that gives Elinor more access to that. [less reserved] “Myself and Marianne sometimes learn to protect their hearts.”
And like almost all Austen adaptations, reason and emotion Of course, there are also balls. However, the style is not what many audiences imagine an Austen dance sequence to be. “The dance doesn’t feel fixed, stuffy, prescriptive or generic. It feels almost modern, almost earthy, witchy and passionate,” says Esmé Creed-Miles, who plays Marianne. Frank Dillane, who played Marianne’s other love interest, John Willoughby, recalls filming the dance number as “a really fun day, or even a few days, of filming.”
by reason and emotion It’s a story about finding love. At the end of the book, Elinor marries Edward Ferrars (played by George MacKay in the 2026 film) and Marianne marries family friend Colonel Brandon (played by Herbert Nordrum). Her sister, Creed-Miles, said she and Oakley reason and emotion This is the case with the Dashwood siblings. “Sisterhood isn’t always easy, and I think a movie that has a dynamic that can encourage you to reach out to your loved ones and feel encouraged or shown to you in a relationship is special,” Creed-Miles says.
Her hopes for what audiences will take away are: reason and emotion? “I want people to call their brothers and sisters when they leave the theater.”
Check out the full Big Ticket interview above to see Daisy Edgar-Jones, George MacKay, Esmé Creed-Miles, Frank Dillane, Caitríona Balfe, and Herbert Nordrum discuss important character choices, the art of meeting cute, and their favorite romance movies.
reason and emotion It opens on October 16th. Buy your ticket now.
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