‘Pride & Prejudice’ 20th Anniversary: ​​Director Looks Back On the Film’s “Intenational” Fashion Moments

Pride & PrejudiceThe 2005 Classic Starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfayden, Followed Elizabeth Bennet (Knightley) and Mr. Darcy (macfayden) as they worked through the pride and prejudice Towards each Other While Simultaneously Developing A True Love Connection.

Leaving the Audence with Angst, Humor-Field Moments and Period Piece Fashion That Has Now Become Mainstream in the Bridgerton Era, Director Joe Wright Shares with The Hollywood Reporter How He Interwove themes Into the Movie Adptation.

“We Were Trying to Give An Authenticity to the Costumes, A Sense of How Lived-in They Were,“ He Says.

AHEAD OF ITS 20th Anniversary and Theatric Re-Release, Wright Looks Back on Bringing The Historical Looks to Life by Working with Barbie COSTUME Designer Jacqueline Durran, What That Famous Darcy Hand-Flex Scene Actual Meant and How Elizabeth ‘Feelings and Fashion Were Interconnected In Pride & Prejudice.

Elizabeth’s style and Attitude Seem Less Colorful and more Subdoed than her sisters, and at the Same Time, sheemed the LEAST INTERESTED IN Getting Married. Was that that intenational? And How did her fashion reflect that in comparison to her sisters?

Yeah, that was intenational. The Idea for Elizabeth Was That She Was Much More Down to Earth, Of The Earth, Than Her Sisters. Althugh Kind of Paradoxically, She Was Also Aspiration to Poetry and to Greater Things As Well. SO WHERE THE SISTERS WERE Kind of Flighty and Jacqueline Durran, The Costume Designer, Really Managed to Create Beautify Drawn Characters for All of The Girls.

Jena Malone there in patterns, Green and Always Kind of Twinned with a Very Young Carey Mulligan. IT WAS HER FIRST FILLM, I THINK She WAS 18 at the TIME. D Ten rosmond pike [and] Elizabeth Was Always Slightly More VolupTUS and Slightly More of A Kind of Venus Character. Talulah riley in the background there, was much more sort of series and studios.

There was only a few time that elizabeth wore light colors, including the ball dancing scene WHERE sheer she danced with mr. Darcy and WHEN she Visited Darcy’s House. Does Her Cream Color Dress Reflect or Represent Elizabeth’s Growing Interest or Openness to Darcy?

We chose to dress all the girls at the ball in white, in cream and ivory and white. However, I DID FEEL LIKE THAT. The Sculpture Gallery with Her Dressed in White, There Were Somehow This Kind of Hovering Slightly Above the Earth Atmosphere, Something Incredibly Light. As she encounters, i mean, in the first Scene in the ball scene, she almost touches Upon the transformation that Will Take Much Later. And then she recoils from that transformation, and then by the time she arrives at the Sculpture Gallery, that kind of sequence is about the kind of total transformation of the character.

Can You Break Down The Famus Hand Flex Carriage Scene from Both Darcy’s and Elizabeth’s Perspectives?

The hand scene was realy a kind of articulation for me of this idea that sometimes Our Bodies Know Best. That Our Minds Might Be A Little Slow to Catch Up, and that Both Darcy and Elizabeth’s Bodies, Their Hands, Their Whole Nervouse System, Is Aware of the Importance of Inno. She certainly isn’t, but he have a growing awareness at this point. And WHEN HE FLEXES HIS HIS HANDS HE WALKS AWAY, IS A KIND OF ALMOST A Shaking Off of That Feeling of That Reality.

How do you think periood piece fashion have evolved over the years? How was Pride & Prejudice paved the Way for Success or Interest in Other Period Dramas Like Bridgerton?

WHEN I FIRST MET [for the] Working Title to Talk About Making Pride & PrejudiceI’d Only Recently Recently Jane Austen’s Book and Discovered That Elizabeth Bennett Is Only 18 in the Novel. I Think Darcy is 26 or Seven. And in Fact, Jane Austen Herself Was Only 21 WHEN She Wrote It and That Was An Enormous Shock To Me and Gave Me An Idea, A Key, If You Like, To How To Present This Story.

IT’s A Story About Very Young People Falling in Love for the FIRST TIME AND Written by a Very Young Person Discovering Her Talent for The Firmst Time, So Its Really Important. Previos Iterations of Pride & Prejudice Or of Other Period MOVIES HAD OFTEN CAST ACTORS, MALE AND FEMALE IN THEIR KIND OF TWENTIES, LATE TWENTIES, EVEN ONCE they’ve become slightly more establized. But that seized wrong to me.

It was Really Important to Find an Actor to Play Elizabeth, Who Was The Right Age. And of Course, Keira Popel Up on the Scene with Amazing Kind of Energy and Fire and Was The Perfect Choice. And I Was A Huge Fan of Robert Altman and Mike Lee and Directors Like That. The Costume Designer, Jacqueline Duran, Had Really Only Worked With Mike Lee Before This Movie. She’s Gone on to to Barbie and Amazing Work.

We Were Trying to Give An Authenticity to the Costumes, A Sense of How Lived-in They Were. The research had substantated that you would be wash your undercloths once a week or so, but the Dresses Themselves Were Designed Not to be Washed at All Really, or Very, Very Rarely. There’s A Kind of Dirt and A Grubbiness to the Whole Existence That I Felt Was Really Important to Try and CAPTURE Authentically.

As for how that’s kind of had a ripple effect since -i mean, I don’t know. I Guess that you can sort of look at some of the more contemporary period movies and understand that there was a reference there, but that’s not for me to say.

Ahead of the 20th Anniversary of the Film, WHEN YOU LOOK BACK, ARE THERE Any Deleted Scenes or Belt Ending Scenes from The Book That You Wished You Wound’ve Included?

The Original Film HAS ACTUALLY Two Endings: One Version That Was For America and One Version Was for Everyone Else… I didn’t have final state Solution. The American Version Had a Final Scene of Darcy and Elizabeth on Their Wedding Night, Speaking Posies to Each Other, and I Felt It Was a Little Too Sweet and Sentimental. I Much Preferred the ending that ended on mr. Bennett and His Joy at His Daughter’s Betrotal. So there are two endings out there.

Any scenes from the book that you grew you had included?

No, there’s nothing i feel like i wish we short have included.

How Was Theme “Pride and Prejudice” Interwoven Into The Film Visaally?

Theme in Storytelling Is Fundamental and You Need to Work Out Your Theme and the Direct Everything To The Articulation of that. Luckily for me, in my First Movie, Theme Was Quite Clearly Stated in the Title, and So Ever Choice I Made Was, “How Does this Choice Articulate theme?” That Helped me make Decisions and It Helped Me Kind of Navigate My Way Through Some of the Kind of Dense Dialogue and Soon. And you just keeep that in the back of your mind at all all Times.

Pride & Prejudice Re-Releases in Theaters On April 20