“The knives will be out”
Boy, even Mr. Darcy’s scared of the Janeites!
Matthew Macfadyen tells the New Zealand Herald that he knows the Colin Firth fans will be watching his performance as Mr. Darcy very carefully.
He plays the lead character, which many will forever associate with Colin Firth from the television adaptation of a decade ago, opposite Keira Knightley. “I’ve been wearing sideburns on a horse and looking very brooding and everything. I can’t really take myself seriously as Darcy but they are all pleased, so hopefully it will come out okay.”
Those are quite some britches to fill …
“Yes, the knives will be out.”
Yes, but Mr. Darcy shouldn’t care.
Incidentally, our contact at Focus Features warned that there will not be much P&P3 news now that the film has wrapped until sometime next year, as the publicity machine starts to warm up. The AustenBlog staff will, of course, keep our readers up to date on everything we come across.
