More cast members for Miss Austen Regrets
Alert Janeite Sylvia M. wrote to tell us that IMDB has two more cast members listed for Miss Austen Regrets, joining Olivia Williams as Jane Austen. Phyllida Law (Mrs. Bates in the Gwyneth Paltrow Emma) will play Mrs. Austen and Adrian Edmondson will play Henry Austen.
The IMDB is notoriously unreliable, so treat these as rumors until more solid proof arrives; but we have no reason to disbelieve these casting choices.
P.S. Andrea Galer is listed as costume designer; she also did costumes for MP99 and P07.
August 11th, 2007 at 10:57 am
check it out - more cast members: http://www.hughbonneville.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=145&Itemid=61 I’ve added them to the IMDb (cos I’m a geek :S) but they’ve not gone up yet. No idea who put Edmondson and Law up tho.
August 11th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Oh, forgot to mention, i think “Tom Hiddlestone” is actually: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1089991/ http://www.rada.org/grad05/hid.html http://www.hamiltonhodell.co.uk/page.asp?partid=98 (he’s so cute in this one IMO) Fanny’s intended perhaps?
August 11th, 2007 at 11:05 am
ooo - he’s alredy worked with Olivia Williams. If this is him clutching her in the big pic, i take back the cuteness comment: http://www.cheekbyjowl.com/productions/thechangeling/gallery.html
August 11th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Thank you Amo, this is interesting
August 11th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Just a question, in one of the links, they say this
[I]Olivia Williams stars as Jane Austen in this BBC1 film about the novelist’s later life, by Gwyneth (FIVE DAYS) Hughes. Co- starring Greta Scacchi, Jack Huston, Tom Hiddlestone and Phylidda Law. Hugh plays Rev. Brook Bridges.[/I]
¿Greta Scacchi?
August 11th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Hm, until recently i knew her only as a (pretty legendary) name, but she seems to be making a british TV (and the film of Brideshead Revisisted) comeback. She’s been in an “Afternoon Play” this year, and has “Belle Du Jour” for ITV, and now “MAR” coming up. Random. Reminds me of a while ago when Rula Lenska and Harriet Walter were both in the same episode of “Doctors” (!). I’d guess Scaachi would be playing Mrs Austen (seeing as she looks so much like Williams), if they weren’t so close in age.
August 11th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Greta Scacchi was Mrs Weston in Gwyneth Paltrow Emma, in “Miss Austen Regrets” she won’t be Mrs Austen, because Phyllida Law will be Mrs Austen. She looks a little bit like Williams, so maybe she will be Cassandra?
August 11th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Greta Scacchi would be too old to be Cassandra.
About Tom Hiddlestone’s cuteness in the Cheek by Jowl pictures–those pictures do not flatter Olivia Williams either, and we know she is quite pretty, so maybe we can put more trust in his portrait photo.
August 11th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
I don’t think Greta Scacchi is too old to play Cassandra, who would have been in her 40s at the time of this film.
August 13th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
I agree with Mags, she is good for playing Cassandra
August 13th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Sorry, I don’t agree!!
August 15th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Oh, yeah, I guess she would’ve been older–oops