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2 August 2004

Auditioning for history

Filed under: Pride and Prejudice (2005) — Mags @ 10:25 pm

From Peterborough Today, a great first-person account of the PRIDE AND PREJUDICE extra auditions in Stamford.

Holding up my name I pulled my biggest, cheesiest grin and trying to look seductive, sultry, deep, and thoughtful in a single pose.

But I couldn’t help feeling more like a crime suspect posing for a mug-shot rather than a wannabe star hoping for a fleeting appearance in next year’s blockbuster movie.

Candy Marlowe, one of the film’s assistant directors, was the women behind the camera.

As she pressed the shutter she told me: “You’ve got a great look.”

She probably said it to everyone, but as I walked away I was filled with pride. Watch this space, I could soon be coming to a cinema near you.

Now that’s what we call pop culture!

Filed under: Screen — Mags @ 10:14 pm

A review of the recent modern-set PRIDE AND PREJUDICE adaptation, generally unremarkable except that it contains the best line we’ve heard in a long time about the plethora of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE adaptations:

At this point, the film adaptations of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice are beginning to resemble J. Lo’s husbands — too many overall and not far enough apart to keep straight.

Somewhere, Jane is applauding.

 

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