“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)

Lydia and Kitty, the giggly frame of mind.

“From Pride & Prejudice onwards, because Pride & Prejudice was basically my first professional job, whenever I had to do something emotional, I just imagined that it was all  linked back to me. And so I imagined terrible things happening to my family, and funerals, and all of these awful things”.

( Carey Mulligan)

“We were like one big family. We took over the house. It was so much fun. Brenda Blethyn (Mrs. Bennett) mummied us all”.

(Carey Mulligan)

“That´s how we synchronise. That´s how we boot up and cross-analogue”.

(Jena Malone)

Carey Mulligan enjoying her first role.

Keira and Carey.

Carey names Keira Knightley as her acting inspiration, calling her time filming Pride & Prejudice a “mad hippie summer”, and saying that Keira is still “amazing” for her.

“The most incredible thing has been seeing people like Carey Mulligan and Talulah Riley, whose first job this is, and how they´ve taken to it like ducks to water and how excited they´ve been”.

(Keira Knightley)

“That was Carey´s first crying scene ever. This was her first film. And she cried very hard on the first take and less on the second and even less on the third  and she´d cried herself out. And she told me that she was thinking about her mother´s funeral. But then she got bored of that, so she thought about what songs she´d play at her own funeral. And it didn´t have quite the same effect”.

(Joe Wright, Director)