[Lee] was more focused on body language than any director I've ever seen or heard of. She was a professional fan of Jane Austen and was understood for her partnership with "[23], The formal casting process began in February 1995,[36] though some of the actors met with Thompson the previous year to help her conceptualise the script. [56] Beavan and Bright's work on the film earned them a nomination for Best Costume Design at the 68th Academy Awards. [109][110] To heighten the contrast between them, Marianne and Willoughby's relationship includes an "erotic" invented scene in which the latter requests a lock of her hair a direct contrast to Elinor's "reserved relationship" with Edward. He continued: And oh sure, plenty of times Ive thought about this film and my own life. "I saw it in the script and I thought, Well, Ill hate doing that,' he told Diane Sawyer at the time. [106][119][120], Thompson viewed the novel as a story of "love and money," noting that some people needed one more than the other. ", When adapting the characters for film, Thompson found that in the novel, "Edward and Brandon are quite shadowy and absent for long periods," and that "making the male characters effective was one of the biggest problems. He played Benny Watts in the Netflix series, The Queens Gambit, for which he was nominated for an Emmy. We won't post to any of your accounts without asking first. Jul 25, 2021 12:30 P.M. Liam Neeson's wife, Natasha Richardson, might be alive today if she hadn't taken her fall while skiing lightly. Bill is everlastingly young and irresponsible; Liam terribly paternal. "[144] Meanwhile, most promotional images featured the film as a "sort of chick flick in period garb. Scroll down to see what some of the main characters inLove Actuallyhave been up to since the films 2003 release. [178][179] The year 1995 saw a resurgence of popularity for Austen's works, as Sense and Sensibility and the serial Pride and Prejudice both rocketed to critical and financial success. It was my job to look at something that Emma Thompson had done and say, "Eh, that's not good, I'll use this other one instead." She played Baroness in 2021's live-action Cruella, and is taking on the role of Miss Trunchbull in the 2022 film adaptation of Matilda the Musical. The actress released her first solo album, Nowhere Land, in 2018 and a year later she competed on The X Factor: Celebrity. "[8], Prior to being hired at Mirage, the producer had spent years looking for a suitable screenwriter[7] someone who was "equally strong in the areas of satire and romance" and could think in Austen's language "almost as naturally as he or she could think in the language of the twentieth century". Thompson's screenplay exaggerated the Dashwood family's wealth to make their later scenes of poverty more apparent to modern audiences. As hes grown in Hollywood his roles have gotten bigger, starring in Nanny McPhee, Nowhere Boy, and Newt in The Maze Runner franchise. Credit: Bruce Adams/Shutterstock ; Brian Anderson/Shutterstock. The actor has since become a predominantly action-based star, leading the Taken franchise and starring in The Grey, Cold Pursuit and The Marksman. She has worked at Marie Claire UK for seven years, rising from intern to Features Editor and is now the most published Marie Claire writer of all time. [48], According to Austen scholar Linda Troost, the costumes used in Sense and Sensibility helped emphasise the class and status of the various characters, particularly among the Dashwoods. He reprised his role as Everett K. Ross in the second Black Panther film in 2022. [34], Thompson initially hoped that Doran would cast sisters Natasha and Joely Richardson as Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Some of us have died. In addition to the rom-com, the Oscar winner has had a major career. [31] Lee said, I thought they were crazy: I was brought up in Taiwan, what do I know about 19th-century England? From the beginning, Doran wanted Sense and Sensibility to appeal to both a core audience of Austen aficionados as well as younger viewers attracted to romantic comedy films. He followed it up with roles on Lost, Old River, Reprisal and Westworld. [14][15] The actress found that Sense and Sensibility contained more action than she had remembered and decided it would translate well to drama. [21], Thompson's first draft was more than three hundred handwritten pages, which required her to reduce it to a more manageable length. "[153] Instead, marketing materials featured quotations from populist newspapers such as the Daily Mail, which compared the film to Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). In 2004, she welcomed her daughter Jlia. The screenwriter had to carefully balance the amount of screentime she gave to the male leads, noting in her film production diary that such a decision would "very much lie in the editing. "[18], When Sense and Sensibility was released in cinemas in the US, Town & Country published a six-page article entitled "Jane Austen's England", which focused on the landscape and sites shown in the film. Trafalgar House and Wilton House in Wiltshire stood in for the grounds of Barton Park and the London Ballroom respectively. A press book released by the studio, as well as Thompson's published screenplay and diaries, listed all the filming locations and helped to boost tourism. [126] Lee conveys this in part when Willoughby publicly rejects Marianne; he returns to a more lavishly furnished room, a symbol of the wealth she has lost. Outside of Love Actually, Freeman is known for playing Bilbo Baggins in the Hobbit franchise. One of the British actors biggest roles was playing Professor Snape in the Harry Potter franchise from 2001 to 2011. Willoughby is really the only male who springs out in three dimensions. Nearly two decades later, the heartwarming story still resonates with fans who feel it in their fingers and feel it in their toes. [11], Because Thompson and Doran had worked on the screenplay for so long, Lee described himself at the time as a "director for hire", as he was unsure of his role and position. All rights reserved. Natasha Richardson began her career in regional theater in the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. [182] In 1995 and 1996, six Austen adaptations were released onto film or television. He also appeared on Fargo, Sherlock, StartUp and Breeders. Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock ; Richard Young/Shutterstock. What was so sweet was that peoples fundamental characters havent changed much over 15 years, Curtis toldThe New York Timesin May 2017, when speaking about the mini-reunion the cast did for NBCs Red Nose Day. [50][51] The two attempted to create accurate period dress,[49] and featured the "fuller, classical look and colours of the late 18th century. Studios were nervous that Thompsona first-time screenwriterwas the credited writer, but Columbia Pictures agreed to distribute the film. [30] She felt that Lee's involvement prevented the film from becoming "just some little English movie" that appealed only to local audiences instead of to the wider world. The Northern Ireland native lost his real-life love, Natasha Richardson, after a skiing accident in 2009 and has since raised their two sons alone. She was the sister of [73] Due to Thompson's extensive acting experience, Lee encouraged her to practice t'ai chi to "help her relax [and] make her do things simpler". Elinor and Marianne's different characteristics were emphasised through imagery and invented scenes. The ensemble includesEmma Thompson,Liam Neeson,Andrew Lincoln,Hugh Grant,Colin Firth and more., In the film, Neesons Daniel tries to navigate the loss of his wife, while guiding his stepson Sam (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) through his first love experience., Meanwhile, Daniels friend Karen (Thompson) is trying to decide how to move forward with her marriage after her husband, Harry (Alan Rickman), begins flirting with his receptionist., As Karens relationship is being tested, her brother David (Grant) is settling into his new role as Prime Minister which he does by dancing like no ones watching through his new residence., In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies. When Mr. Dashwood dies, his wife and three daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret are left with an inheritance of only 500 a year; the bulk of his estate, Norland Park, is left to his son John from a previous marriage. In 2019, the English actor split from wife Livia Giuggioli after 22 years of marriage. "[104] It was one of the first scenes cut during editing: the original version was over three hours, Lee was less interested in the story's romance, and Thompson found a kissing scene to be inappropriate. Lee suggested Elinor's age be changed to twenty-seven, which would also have made the difficult reality of spinsterhood easier for modern audiences to understand. [30][61] Nevertheless, Doran considered it a "low budget film",[62] and many of the ideas Thompson and Lee came up with such as an early dramatic scene depicting Mr. Dashwood's bloody fall from a horse were deemed unfilmable from a cost perspective. Ejiofors Peter is blissfully unaware of his best friends feelings for his new bride having had the most romantic wedding, partially planned by his BFF. She also starred alongside her onscreen husband, Andrew Higson argues that this resulted in a "variety of successors" in the genres of romantic comedy and costume drama, as well as with films featuring strong female characters. They married in 1990. The following year, her father Tony died of an HIV-related illness, and Natasha invited the Irish actor Liam Neeson to co-star with her in a much-lauded Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie. In 1994, Richardson and Fox were divorced, and Neeson, also 11 years her senior, became her second husband. movies and the Bridget Joness Diary franchise. WebEmma Thompson was born on April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London, into a family of actors - father Eric Thompson and mother Phyllida Law, who has co-starred with Thompson in In panic Thompson called fellow actor and close friend Stephen Fry, the host of QI and a self-professed "geek". They are forced to seek financial security through marriage. [13] Thompson and Doran were already working together on Mirage's 1991 film Dead Again. Lee and Columbia wanted Thompson herself, now a "big-deal movie star" after her critically successful role in the 1992 film Howards End, to play Elinor. [71] Thompson later recalled that Lee would "always come up to you and say something unexpectedly crushing", such as asking her not to "look so old". Producer Lindsay Doran, a longtime admirer of Austen's novel, hired Thompson to write the screenplay. Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships so we may receive compensation for some links to products and services. "[144] New Market Press published Thompson's screenplay and film diary;[146][147] in its first printing, the hard cover edition sold 28,500 copies in the US. [36] Amanda Root had also worked with Thompson on the screenplay, but had already committed to star in the 1995 film Persuasion. [37] Lee eventually cast all but one of them: Hugh Grant (as Edward Ferrars), Robert Hardy (as Sir John Middleton), Harriet Walter (as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood), Imelda Staunton (as Charlotte Jennings Palmer), and Hugh Laurie (as Mr. The Oscar-nominated actress then made a name for herself with Pride & Prejudice, Atonement and starring as Elizabeth Swan in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. [53] The main costumes and hats were manufactured at Cosprop, a London-based costumer company. Love Actually, thats the way it is. He voiced Ferb on Disney Channels Phineas and Ferb for four seasons, before landing the role of John Tracy on Thunderbirds Are Go. Credit: Nils Jorgensen/Shutterstock; Can Nguyen/Shutterstock. [79] As Saltram was a National Trust property, Schamus had to sign a contract before production began, and staff with the organisation remained on set to carefully monitor the filming. "[59] Grant in particular often had to be restrained from giving an "over-the-top" performance; Lee later recalled that the actor is "a show stealer. Fanny, the snobbiest of the characters, possesses the tightest of curls but has less of a Greek silhouette, a reflection of her wealth and silliness. On the morning she expects him to propose marriage to her, he instead leaves hurriedly for London. He later appeared on Castlevania. Mompesson House, an eighteenth-century townhouse located in Salisbury, represented Mrs. Jennings' sumptuous townhouse. Its rather reassuring.. 2003sLove Actuallymay have been mainly focused on England-based romances, but it has become a worldwide holiday staple among its fans. She has actually been bestowed different awards throughout her career. As a result, she becomes seriously ill and is nursed back to health by Elinor after being rescued by Colonel Brandon. On their way home to Devonshire, Elinor and Marianne stop for the night at the country estate of the Palmers, who live near Willoughby. His wife, Natasha Richardson, died in 2009 after a fall while skiing in Canada, leaving behind Liam and their two sons. Credit: Peter Mountain/Universal/Dna/Working Title/Kobal/Shutterstock; Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock. [57], The film was budgeted at $16 million,[58][59] the largest Ang Lee had yet received as well as the largest awarded to an Austen film that decade. "[4] She also praised the novel for possessing "wonderful characters three strong love stories, surprising plot twists, good jokes, relevant themes, and a heart-stopping ending. 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