Letters.
“So many letters in a Jane Austen book, wich are difficult things to dramatise really. I think letters are really un-cinematic and quite boring in terms of film.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
“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)
“Socially, Mr. Bingley is not as sure footed as Darcy. He comes from a family that only made its money one or two generations before so they have a more delicate social position. His sister is very aggressive because she feels threatened by her roots”.
(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)
“Pride & Prejudice” gives Elizabeth several showy scenes. But it is Elizabeth’s rejection of Darcy’s overture, a confrontation that unfolds in a downpour and was filmed in a day, that Keira Knightley singles out as her favorite sequence.
“This was all improvised, this little section. It was a much shorter section but Simon did it so well that we extended it”.
(Joe Wright, Director)
“We used to call this scene `the car crash scene´. Because it happens so fast and so quickly. And afterwards you can´t quite remenber what happened or what you´d said. You just know that something terrible happened.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
“Keira had paparazzi trying to get photographs of her while we were shooting this scene. They´re the strangest things, those paparazzi people. Really rude. So we kept on moving big sheets of material to try and get in their way. But then they´d scuttle round and hide under another bush.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
Lizzie, Cecilia, Anna.
It´s been fascinating to watch Keira grow as I´ve grown, we´ve kind of grown together. She was eighteen when we made “Pride and prejudice” so she was pretty much a kid. And then we made “Atonement”, she was twenty one or two and now, as she matures, she´s become this incredibly strong woman and utterly fearless as well. Those were the qualities I really wanted to bring to the screen in “Anna Karenina”.
(Joe Wright, Director)
