![]() ![]() This more toned down performance was thanks to Ang Lee, who wanted Grant to show how repressed and controlled Edward is, and how he cannot express his love for Elinor as he wants to. His portrayal of Elinor’s love interest, the kind hearted Edward Ferris, is understated and perfectly matches the natural turn given by Emma Thompson. ![]() ![]() Her being older also acts as a visual shorthand for the audience in terms of understanding why Elinor is seen as “being on the shelf”, and not the more obvious catch that Marianne supposedly is.īefore Sense and Sensibility, Hugh Grant had endeared himself to audiences as the adorable nerd in Four Weddings and A Funeral. This necessitated making Elinor several years older than in the novel, which I feel benefits the story enormously in not only having the perfect actress play the role, but also reinforcing the emotional maturity of Elinor with the physical. Initially, Thompson felt that Natasha and Joely Richardson should play the Dashwood sisters, but Lindsay Doran insisted that Thompson should play Elinor. Quite rightly, too, as it took five years for her to write said screenplay. ![]() It was Thompson’s first screenplay, and she would go onto win an Oscar for her effort. Lindsay Doran, the film’s executive producer, had wanted to adapt the film since her youth, and championed Thompson writing the screenplay due to the latter’s flare for wit. Sense and Sensibility was issued in 1811, and was Austen’s first published novel. Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet as Elinor and Marianne Dashwood ![]()
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