“The response to Pride has been so overwhelming. I mean, people have really loved it. And it’s so rewarding because we had such a fun time making that film, and it was made with so much heart, that it’s lovely that people seem to be responding in kind to that.”
(Rosamund Pike)
Lizzie and Jane.
“And now she´s come home and home is different (after Mr. Darcy´s first proposal). Her whole view of the world and her family and herself has shifted. And she can no longer be honest and open with her sister, with Jane. The drifting apart of Jane and Elizabeth (2). And here, finally, Jane´s got her back to Elizabeth (3). Think about that scene under the covers (1) and this is where we´ve got to in their relationship. And they are completely dislocated from each other. (After Mr. Bingley´s proposal) These two are back together again (4).”
(Joe Wright, Director)
“This next shot coming up is one of my favourites in the film. Just her waiting there. Knowing what’s coming. And so scared. And the way her hands are”.
(Joe Wright, Director)
“Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see a fault in anybody. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in your life.”
(“Pride and prejudice”, Chapter 4)
“When first he came in, he had spoken to her but little; but every five minutes seemed to be giving her more of his attention. He found her as handsome as she had been last year; as good natured, and as unaffected, though not quite so chatty. Jane was anxious that no difference should be perceived in her at all, and was really persuaded that she talked as much as ever. But her mind was so busily engaged, that she did not always know when she was silent.”
(“Pride and prejudice”, Chapter 53)
“Rosamund and Keira are completely opposite, but that was a choice. Keira’s gorgeousness is very modern, so actually the very beautiful Rosamund Pike is more the serene, lovely blond conventional beauty.”
Rosamund Pike says that she did end up enjoying herself at Oxford because, in her final year, she fell in love. ‘It was like that sentence in Brideshead, about a door finally opening and you suddenly see what it’s all about. Oxford became beautiful for me. I have wonderful memories of being there and it seemed to be endlessly summer and it was wonderful to be in love, really…’ Her boyfriend, Simon Woods, went on to become an actor, too, and after they split up was cast alongside her in the film Pride & Prejudice in 2005.
“Really fun, ‘cause I’m an only child so, I don’t know what it’s like to have that particular rivalry you have with a sister or that particular love or whatever and with this it feels like it has come alive.”
(Rosamund Pike)
“Filming Pride and Prejudice was a joy and made for one of my happiest summers ever. It could well be that the story brings out the best in people and it sounds so cheesy, but we really did behave like a family. The girls playing the younger sisters had never been on a film set before and wanted to socialise all the time, so we picnicked, hung out in a beautiful country house and went swimming naked in a lake. It was idyllic.”
(Rosamund Pike)
“And these two are back together again. And LIzzie is so gracious in this scene. She doesn´t take up any emotional space, she gives it all to Jane. She knows it´s Jane´s night.
`Perhaps Mr. Collins has a cousin´, I think that´s the most endearing line of Elizabeth´s throughout the film.”(Joe Wright, Director)
