Production on Netflix’s limited series adaptation of Pride and Prejudice has officially begun!
To mark the occasion, the streamer unveiled a first look at the upcoming series (above) and revealed the supporting cast members who will flesh out the world written for television by best-selling author Dolly Alderton and directed by Heartstopper and Doctor Who‘s Euros Lyn.
Rufus Sewell (The Diplomat, Scoop) will star as the beloved Bennet family patriarch, with Louis Partridge (Disclaimer, Enola Holmes) playing Mr. Darcy’s nemesis, Mr. Wickham. Harry Potter star Fiona Shaw will play Lady Catherine de Bourg, and Daryl McCormack (Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande) has been cast as Mr Bingley.
In addition, Barbie‘s Jamie Demetriou is Mr. Collins, Freya Mavor (Industry) is Jane Bennet, Rhea Norwood (Heartstopper) is Lydia Bennet, and Black Mirror‘s Siena Kelly is playing Caroline Bingley. Hopey Parish and Hollie Avery make their screen debuts as Mary and Kitty Bennet, respectively.
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Emma Corrin; Jack Lowden; Olivia Colman
The stars join Emma Corrin (The Crown, Nosferatu) and Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Mary Queen of Scots), who were previously announced as the adaptation’s Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Olivia Colman (The Crown, The Favourite) was also revealed as the eternally vexed Bennet matriarch, Mrs. Bennet.
Corrin, who is nonbinary, will also executive produce the series.
Also joining the cast is Anjana Vasan (A Streetcar Named Desire) as Mrs. Gardiner, Sebastian Armesto (Gangs of London) as Mr. Gardiner, Rosie Cavaliero (KAOS, Bookish) as Lady Lucas, Saffron Coomber Three Little Birds) as Mrs. Hurst, James Dryden (Deadpool) as Mr. Hurst, Justin Edwards (The Thick Of It, The Franchise) as Sir William Lucas, James Northcote (The Last Kingdom, Fool Me Once) as Colonel Forster, Eloise Webb (The Queen’s Gambit, Sanditon) as Harriet Forster and Isabella Sermon (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic World: Dominion) as Georgiana Darcy.
Set to comprise of six episodes, the limited series has been billed as a faithful adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved 19th-century England romance novel.
Austen’s novel, published in 1813, has inspired dozens of television and film adaptations, including the 1995 miniseries starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle and the 2005 film adaptation starring Keira Knightley and a pre-Succession Matthew Macfadyen. Those adaptations starred Alison Steadman and Brenda Blethyn, respectively, as Mrs. Bennet.
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Alderton, who also serves as an executive producer, previously gushed about her turn at adapting the novel, saying in a statement: “Once in a generation, a group of people get to retell this wonderful story and I feel very lucky that I get to be a part of it.”
She added, “With Euros Lyn directing our stellar cast, I am so excited to reintroduce these hilarious and complicated characters to those who count Pride and Prejudice as their favorite book, and those who are yet to meet their Lizzie and Mr. Darcy.”
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