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kitmerlot_1213 ([personal profile] kitmerlot_1213) wrote2014-10-26 10:19 pm

Death Comes to Pemberley

Has anyone else seen this?  Holy crap but I can not get past just how horribly unattractive the actors are who are playing Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy amd I know that's shallow but it's disconcerting to see the pretty and sparkingly Elizabeth played by such an older and drab woman.  And the characaterization seems wrong--since when does Elizabeth call her husband "Darcy?"

[identity profile] kitmerlot1213.livejournal.com 2014-10-30 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I watched the actress in The Bletchley Circle and her clenched jaw, stiff upper lip and generally unsmiling acting matched with the character perfectly but as Elizabeth Bennett? No freakin' way!

Not even Anne Elliott who we know was secretly pretty and just needed her Captain Wentworth to bring it out :):)

And 1995's Persuasion is one of my all time favorite interpretations of Jane Austen's novels--second only to Jennifer Ehle/Colin Firth's Pride and Prejudice :)