Jane Austen’s literary works have impressed many profitable movie and tv variations, together with the 2005 iteration of Satisfaction & Prejudice.
Satisfaction & Prejudice intently follows Austen’s 1818 novel of the identical identify, the place bookish Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightley) faces her pricey mom’s mounting pressures to marry her — and her 4 sisters — off to rich gents on the town. Her elder sister Jane (Rosamund Pike), to their mom’s delight, discovered an immediate reference to Charles Bingley (Simon Woods). Nonetheless, Bingley’s pursuit of Jane meant that Elizabeth could be spending extra time with the uptight Fitzwilliam Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen), who finds her “barely tolerable” to be round.
The 2005 adaptation, penned by Deborah Moggach and Emma Thompson, was directed by Joe Wright.
“Satisfaction & Prejudice was so wonderful as a result of I’d been so obsessive about it since I used to be about 8,” Knightley gushed throughout a January 2019 interview with BBC Radio 1. “So, like, doing that, and in addition it was the primary time I labored or been round a load of individuals round my very own age, who have been all occupied with the identical factor as a result of I’d left faculty early [to pursue acting].”
The Love Really star added: “So, I feel that was actually enjoyable as a result of it was this group of women that have been all collectively and that was wonderful!”
2005’s iteration was hardly the primary time an adaptation of Satisfaction & Prejudice had been mounted. Sir Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson have been the primary stars to painting Darcy and Elizabeth, respectively, within the 1940 film. The BBC later tailored Satisfaction & Prejudice for tv in 1995, starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth because the eventual couple. Wright, who directed the 2005 manufacturing, was intrigued to remake Austen’s basic once more, a long time later.
“There hadn’t been a movie model of Satisfaction and Prejudice for about 65 years. So it felt prefer it was time to be made once more,” the Atonement filmmaker instructed IndieWire in November 2005. “Additionally, I don’t actually make work within the context of what’s been made earlier than. Sure concepts simply get their hooks in me.”
He continued on the time: “It was only a good script. Like myself, actors are drawn to the standard of the script. Initially, I believed Keira was in all probability too stunning for the function. And after I met her I found this scruffy sort of little tomboy character and found she had unbelievable wit and intelligence and a really robust character, these qualities made me assume that she doesn’t match into the sort of preconceived concepts of what a lady ought to be, [which] made me assume she’d be excellent for Elizabeth.”
For the reason that movie’s launch, it has remained a pinnacle for regency romances with devoted followers typically cooing over Darcy’s now-infamous “hand flex,” during which Macfadyen’s hand gently grazes Knightley’s in passing throughout one scene.
“It’s credit score to Joe [Wright] as a result of he’s — I feel, he doesn’t miss a trick, and he’s so alive to issues, and he noticed me do it in a rehearsal take and I keep in mind him simply going, ‘Get that!’ So they only did an additional shot on the hand,” the Succession star instructed NPR in June 2022, noting how intimidated he felt to painting the long-lasting main man. “I didn’t really feel I used to be dishy sufficient and kind of brooding sufficient. … It was an excellent adaptation. Joe was nice [and] Keira was nice. It was a stunning factor to be part of.”
Scroll under to see what the Satisfaction and Prejudice forged has been as much as years after their time in Meryton:
