The author of Eligible on adapting Pride and Prejudice, the 21st-century woman’s lot and being stylistically subsumed by Jane Austen’s words
Were you a diehard Jane Austen fan before you took on Pride and Prejudice?
I read it for the first time when I was 16 and that was the first of her novels that I’d read. I’ve come back to it a few times and I loved the BBC miniseries. I would say that, before I took this on, I was an Austen fan but not a Jane-ite; at that point in my life, I had never bought an empire-waist dress, which I have since, by the way. I rented a dress and made my sister take some pictures of me in case they might come in handy.
What most attracted you to this project of bringing Austen into the modern world?
What I admire in her books is that she writes great dialogue, she creates vivid characters, she is unparalleled at creating romantic tension and she is very funny. But it’s a completely different thing to enjoy Pride and Prejudice as a consumer and then to create your own version of it.
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