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Anghraine ([personal profile] anghraine) wrote2024-02-28 03:21 pm
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An anon asked:

What do you think about a new adaptation in a couple of years with millie bobby brown as lizzy bennet?

I replied:

Sorry, I don’t know who that is!

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[personal profile] anghraine 2024-03-01 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Right! Playing Darcy made Firth and Macfadyen famous more than the other way around, I suspect. I know Firth used to joke that he could do anything with his life, take any role, go to space, and the headline would still be "Mr Darcy goes to space." I feel like Succession is probably the only thing comparable to P&P for Macfadyen and it's been huge.

It's more a trend than an absolute thing (1995 S&S has a bunch of stars regardless of gender, for instance) but at least with P&P, the only time a really big name has been Darcy was Olivier in 1940 IIRC.
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