Lydia Bennet

There are often people that aren't like others in their family.

Lydia Bennet, very different to Elizabeth Bennet.

Yes, that's true.

But Lydia is very much like her mother.

Um, I think there is a way that Austen is not particularly interested in punishing characters for not adhering to even her, what m- we might think of as her ideals.

So Lydia Bennet is, certainly doesn't have the life she wants.

She's away from her family.

She sort of is excommunicated to the North when the South is this beautiful, aesthetic place.

It just plopped into this movie because it's the same vibe and I love it.

See, my experience with her is Lydia Bennett from Pride and Prejudice.

Okay.

And then the girl from Saved.

Because, you know, these properties, particularly in Pride and Prejudice, are so emblematic of...

What the meaning of the novel is, you know, when you have Mrs. Bennet talking about all the local estates and the manor houses that can be rented, if Lydia is to settle in their area, you know, she could have this place or this place.

Oh, but their attics are terrible and they don't have enough of an aspect.

So, you know, houses are so important in the kind of language of Pride and Prejudice that I think that's where Davis and Langton decided on doing this with the material for 1995 to make it very much kind of out in the English countryside and in these historic buildings.

Yeah.

We have Jane, we have Lizzie, we have Mary, we have Kitty, and we have Lydia.

In the 95 version, I just absolutely love how they've cast them.

They all are so distinct in their casting.

Like, she's very, you know, thinking about other people and, like, what they think and her sisters and stuff like that.

Whereas, you know, Lizzie has more of her own opinions on things and isn't afraid to like be a truth seeker.

But if I had to pick a second favorite, I kind of want to I don't want to pick Lydia because it's like, geez, Lydia, she's a fucking idiot.

Lydia makes me as an eldest daughter.

No.

He decides he's going to trick her sister Lydia into eloping with him.

And by eloping with him, he basically kidnaps her, kind of.

Not kind of.

God damn.

And those are your words for it.

So Lydia is saved, but Wickham duels Darcy and reveals, oh my gosh, I've been a zombie for, like, forever.

Like, it's been a while.

Mr. Bennett, read by Robert Hoffman.

Lydia,

read by Dwayne.

Jane Bennett, read by Tiffany Hala Colonna.

oh she is out walking with charlotte lucas and that dismal mr collins "'Lissy?

Out walking with Mr. Collins? Why didn't you go, Jane?' "'I had

to practice with Lydia.' "'I'm sure I would have excused you.

But what is Mr. Collins here for, Mama? I am sure I caught Mr.

Mr. Bennett, read by Robert Hoffman.

Lydia,

read by Duane.

Jane Bennett.

I desire you will do no such thing.

Lizzy is not a bit better than the others.

She is not half as handsome as Jane, nor as good-humoured as Lydia.

But you are always giving her the preference.'