And there are maaaaany reasons to be worried about any Netflix Austen adaptations.

As we painfully know! >_>

And yeah, I mean, that was pretty obviously the reason for Keira Knightley's casting in so many things in the early 2000s including P&P. It feels kind of gendered honestly—big male roles in this sort of thing sometimes go to big names, of course, but it doesn't feel as common to me.