BBC hit The Other Bennet Sister, which stars Ella Bruccoleri, has delighted Austen readers and broader audiences alike.
But in a recent interview with Variety at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, the show’s star admitted she’d never read Pride and Prejudice, on which both Janice Hadlow’s The Other Bennet Sister novel and its following BBC period drama are based, before landing the part.
“It’s mad, isn’t it? But I’m from North Yorkshire and I just thought Jane Austen wasn’t a writer for me. She was more for posh southern people. I used to read loads of Brontë because that was th...
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