“The cast went down there and spent a few days playing sardines, and just mucking about in the house so that they could claim it as there own house. They each had their own bedroom and a space of their own. Tom Hollander (Mr. Collins) also played sardines and claimed that when he was in a cupboard with the five Bennet sisters it was the happiest day of his life.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
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.
“Society, as a whole, starts with the family. If the family unit is not treasured and nourished, you know, everything is gonna got to pot. So I think we should take a leaf out of their book”.
(Brenda Blethyn)
“And I love it when we’re a family unit rather than… I mean, we’ve been sort of split up in various things… but when we’re presented as the Bennets… and that scene when we go to Netherfield… and it’s a Miss Bennet a Miss Bennet… a Miss Bennet, and a Mrs. Bennet. And it’s like we were all together.”
(Carey Mulligan)
Did you bond with the other Bennet sisters?
Oh yes, totally! You know this was the first time for me that I worked with girls my own age. It was just lovely for me to work with people who shared the same interests cause I´ve never had that before. I´m still friendly with a lot of the people who worked on “Pride and prejudice”. It was a really special experience cause that rarely happens on a film set where everybody just loves each other and I think that you can really see that in the film as well.”
(Keira Knightley)
“Carey Mulligan, Kitty, put on a lot of weight cos I used to get her to eat in every scene. She’s now about two stone lighter”.
(Joe Wright, Director)
Carey Mulligan: I think Jena helped a lot ‘cause I kind of leaned, I have leaned on her the whole solo basically, because it’s kind of A: in my character, and B: just because she’s so much more experienced. She kind of psyches me up for stuff so she kind of helps me get in the giggly frame of mind all the time.
Jena Malone: You know when I go up she goes down and we both sort of hop, she skip and just sort of becoming synchronized with another actor. It’s quite hard, actually.
“Pride and prejudice is a youthful book, written by a twenty one year old girl when she wrote the first draft. So it’s got great energy, and I wanted that speed and energy running through it. I wanted that youthful telling of it. That’s not because I wanted a youthful audience, but because it was written by somebody young.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
