Pride & Prejudice, the 2005 classic starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfayden, followed Elizabeth Bennet (Knightley) and Mr. Darcy (Macfayden) as they worked through their pride and prejudice towards each other while simultaneously developing a true love connection.
Leaving the audience with angst, humor-filled moments and period piece fashion that has now become mainstream in the Bridgerton era, director Joe Wright shares with The Hollywood Reporter how he interwove the story’s themes into the movie adaptation.
“We were trying to give an authenticity to the costumes, a sense of how lived-in they were,” he says.
Ahead of its 20th anniversary and theatrical re-release, Wright looks back on bringing the historical looks to life by working with Barbie costume designer Jacqueline Durran, what that famous Darcy hand-flex scene actually meant and how Elizabeth’s feelings and fashion were interconnected in Pride & Prejudice.
Jena Malone, Rosamund Pike, Keira Knightley, Brenda Blethyn and Carey Mulligan in
‘Pride & Prejudice.’Yeah, that was intentional. The idea for Elizabeth was that she was
much more down to earth, of the earth, than her sisters. Although kind of paradoxically,
she was also aspiring to poetry and to greater things as well. So where the sisters were
kind of flighty and Jacqueline Durran, the costume designer, really managed to create
beautifully drawn characters for all of the girls. Jena Malone there in patterns, green and
always kind of twinned with a very young Carey Mulligan. It was her first film, I think she
was 18 at the time. And then Rosamond Pike [and] Elizabeth was always slightly more
voluptuous and slightly more of a kind of Venus character. Talulah Riley in the background
there, was much more sort of serious and studious. Source link
