“I loved working with Joe Wright. I think he did an amazing job with the movie. It’s only an impression of the book. I think he was really successful in telling the story in two hours and still managing to appease the whole spectrum of people from the hardcore Austen fans to men in the street who went grudgingly to a girlie film”.
(Matthew Macfadyen)
It´s a great love story between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, but underpinning it all is this kind of love that runs this family, that makes this family operate in such a wonderful, absurd, amusing and exciting way. There´s such a great mix of characters. They´re kind of irresistible.
“It is terribly attractive when your pomposity is noticed and then punctured in public. It is infuriating and embarrassing and you hate that person. When Elizabeth humiliates Darcy at the Meryton Ball, he finds it incredibly funny. Darcy’s being thrown off balance and captivated against his will. By the end of that scene he should be on the verge of tears of frustration, because she wins the encounter. I mean, he is mortified and hates her but goes home and locks all the doors and laughs hysterically into the pillow. That is why she is so attractive.”
(Matthew Macfadyen)
