A visit to the set of Persuasion 2007
The latest issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World includes an article about a visit to the set of PERSUASION 2007, which is available to read as a PDF. There are some fabulous cast photos (including a nearly unrecognizable–but fantastic–Anthony Head as Sir Walter Elliot, complete with flowered waistcoat) and great information about the new film. We’ll let you enjoy it for yourself, but we take note of a couple of passages:
…Snodin was determined from the outset to stay as true to Jane Austen’s plot as possible. One of his preconditions for producing Persuasion was that it be set in and around Bath (”I was totally fixed on that,” he says, “I wouldn’t have done it otherwise”)
Bless you, sir! Bless you!
About Sally Hawkins, who stars as Anne Elliot:
In fact, having been wondering about her suitability for the part myself–she looks nothing like my mental picture of Anne Elliot–I find that on set she seems to practically melt into the character.
That sounds promising indeed!
But we did have a whisky-tango-foxtrot moment:
“The ending of Persuasion is something of a farce of missed opportunities,” (Snodin) comments. “Anne and Wentworth are like ships passing in the night. We’ve taken that one step further and made it quite funny and desperate, with Anne’s hair becoming more and more disheveled the more anxious she gets.”
Hrmph.
Thanks to Alert Janeites Karenlee and Sylvia M for the heads-up on the article.
