Daisy Edgar-Jones has been cast in a new film adaptation of Jane Austen‘s Sense and Sensibility.
Daisy Edgar-Jones will star in a new movie version of Sense and Sensibility
The 27-year-old actress will play one of the Dashwood sisters in the latest take on Austen’s classic 18th century novel that is being directed by Georgia Oakley from a script penned by author Diana Reid.
Sense and Sensibility tells the story of the impoverished Dashwood family and centres on the romantic experiences of sisters Elinor and Marianne as they and their widowed mother attempt to navigate life following the death of their father and husband respectively.
Edgar-Jones will portray the character of Elinor.
Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films are producing the picture together with India Flint of November Pictures and Jo Wallett.
Sense and Sensibility was previously adapted for the big screen in 1995, with the movie being directed by Ang Lee and starring Dame Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet as the Dashwood sisters.
Daisy has starred in movies such as Twisters and On Swift Horses in recent times and explained that she wants every part that she plays to have “layers” within it.
She told ELLE: “You want to find characters with agency. It’s great that more and more stories are being made with women front and center. It’s also an interesting thing, being a woman in your 20s, wanting to find characters who are not always ingenues.
“I want every character I play to be complicated and deep and have layers to them, because that’s what it is…
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