As a generation awaits its own adaptation of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, screenwriter Dolly Alderton reflects on working with the cast and shares her diary of making the television event of the year in the October issue of British VOGUE.
Photographed by Scott Trindle and styled by Raphael Hirsch, Emma Corrin, Jack Lowden, Olivia Colman, Rufus Sewell, Freya Mavor, Daryl McCormack, Louis Partridge, Rhea Norwood, Jasmine Blackborow and Jamie Demetriou appear in the feature, as Alderton takes readers behind the scenes of the new adaptation.
In her diary from set, Alderton chronicles the making of the series, from casting and read-throughs to costumes and filming at Longbourn and Pemberley. She shares candid moments including the cast’s WhatsApp group, Jack Lowden getting under the skin of Darcy and Emma Corrin and Lowden filming Elizabeth and Darcy’s first kiss.
Dolly Alderton reveals her reaction to casting Louis Partridge as Mr Wickham:
“We got Louis Partridge! We got Louis Partridge! My number-one choice for Wickham – a man who looks like he really could ruin your life. Hooray!”
She shares the name of the Bennet family WhatsApp group:
“Olivia, Emma and the Bennet sisters are all on a Whats...