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)
“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)
“Three months skipping around the English countryside with a load of girls. It was heaven.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
“My first thought was that I wanted to cast all the actors at the ages that Austen wrote them. The emotions only seemed real to me when they were experienced by very young people. And that was really the first decision I made. I wanted to make something that is about young people experiencing these emotions for the first time and not understanding the feelings they are having.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
“I didn’t want to cast people who looked like each other though. What I did rather, was to find mannerisms that they all shared.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
“And it’s difficult for Lizzie here cos she’s happy for her sister, but, at the same time, she’s wishing it was her.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
“The idea that all the women should be dressed in white at this ball was Jacqueline Durran´s idea. Was an idea she came up with in the interview that we had. And that was the idea that made me decide I wanted her to design the costumes. There was a massive fashion for wearing white at the time.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
“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)
“This long shot here is split into two: the back of the house and the front. That was because we wanted the sun at the back in the beginning of the shot. And so coming up here is a wipe. So there´s a cut there. And this bit was shot at the end of the day, so we got the sun in the front of the house. So there´s two suns. A bit cheeky, but I don´t think anyone really notices.
We wanted to create an atmosphere where you got led into the environment with Elizabeth. We got to know them with her. And the mess. The idea that it´s a house full of hormones, basically.”(Joe Wright, Director)
“This is a film about love. It was made by a group of people who believed passionately in the story they were telling. Pride and prejudice is a true story and that´s why, like a fairytale, it´s a story worth telling again and again through the generations. On behalf of all our cast and crew I hope you enjoy watching our film as much as we enjoyed making it.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
