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His portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice led to widespread attention, and to roles in more prominent films such as The English Patient (1996), Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), and Love Actually (2003), co-starring as ...
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Connection to Pride and Prejudice. Fielding has stated in many interviews that her novel was based upon both Jane Austen's work Pride and Prejudice and its popular 1995 BBC adaptation. This was also reflected in the decision to cast Colin Firth as Darcy, since he played Mr. Darcy in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.
- Helen Fielding
- 1996
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The Dublin University-set romance "Circle of Friends" (1995) was moderately popular, but the BBC production of "Pride and Prejudice" (1995) was wildly popular in Britain and exported to the U.S ...
- Joe Wright hadn’t read the book nor seen the 1995 BBC miniseries when he signed on to direct Pride & Prejudice. When production company Working Title Films first offered Wright the director’s chair for Pride & Prejudice—his first feature film—he’d neither read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice nor seen the BBC’s beloved 1995 miniseries based on it.
- Pride & Prejudice purposely isn’t set during the Regency period. Since Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813, following a substantial revision, it’s often considered a quintessential novel of the Regency period (which technically lasted from 1811 to 1820).
- Keira Knightley was almost deemed too beautiful to play Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice. At 20 years old, Keira Knightley was both the right age to play Elizabeth Bennet—which Wright considered a crucial casting factor—and famous enough from 2003’s Pirates of the Caribbean to satisfy producers’ desire to cast someone with name recognition.
- Matthew MacFadyen was the first choice for Mr. Darcy in Pride & Prejudice. Wright had been a self-described “huge fan” of Matthew Macfadyen since having seen him in TV programs like 1998’s Wuthering Heights and 2001’s Perfect Strangers—and he was just the type of “great big hunk of a guy” Wright envisioned to play Fitzwilliam Darcy.
Watch Pride and Prejudice — Season 1 with a subscription on Hulu, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters attempt to navigate the world of love and high...
Fielding named the character of Mark Darcy after the Pride and Prejudice character Fitzwilliam Darcy and described him exactly like Colin Firth, who played Mr Darcy in the 1995 BBC adaptation.
