I find contemporary feels much more a
challenge because I don't like to show
you know the latest cellphone in three
years your film look pathetic and so
then everyone complains oh they don't
use cellphones in his movies no not so
18th century that period of English
literature is quite punishing on a on a
sexualized woman or a naughty woman or
diabolical woman which is what they
decision it's like and it's incredibly
funny really witty and she doesn't meet
a terribly sticky end which is normally
what happens when you mess people about
in that poo such a perfect match for wit
also who's one of the quietly funniest
people in the world it was the first
time I'd ever done a sweeping period
drama and I think I mean I was thrilled
and so excited to be there and
everything looks so rich and so
beautiful and like what was saying in
Dublin they have some great access to
these beautiful historical homes and
estates and grounds we had the advantage
where we were shooting that there had
done a lot of period films so we really
could rely on enormous and the crew to
get everything right and we had sort of
the a-team doing all that they just did
tons of period films they knew
everything we stay quite close to the
text a lot and we have people in London
who are writing books about period
dictionaries and and things like that
and they reviewed the script and often
they'd say that you can't use this it's
contemporary and I'd say it's actually
in Jane Austen's text a lot of things
that we think are more recent we're
actually in use then we had to be sort
of careful about if it the meeting in
changed and you two were together a last
days of disco what was it like being
back together again on the screen it was
weird because one it didn't feel like
nearly as long as it had been and two
the first time we'd work together I I
think had only been to America maybe
twice for you know a day or so and it
was such a specific obviously whit's
world of lost is it is a very specific
set of people that I had never come
across ever in my life and I just talked
Chloe
constantly to do you know the copy her
accent and try and figure out what was
going on so it was quite nice coming
back and then we were sort of in Britain
and I didn't have to stalk her
so touch me let's go