Marianne Dashwood

Needless to say, when I read the news that Georgia would be directing a new adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, I could not have been more excited for all the tenderness and intelligence with which we'd seen her approach women's stories.

This adaptation is unlike any you've seen before, putting the sisterhood between Marianne and Eleanor front and centre, concerned less with bonnets and corsets than with being one with a natural world and unbridled emotion, in my opinion, just as Austen intended.

It has an absolutely stellar British cast, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esme Creed-Miles playing the Dashwood sisters, with incredible supporting performances from Picturehouse favourites George Mackay, Fiona Shaw, Frank Delane, Herbert Nordrum and Catriona Balfe to name but a few.

I was so excited to sit down with a handful of the film's cast as well as director, first chatting with Georgia and Esme, then with Frank and Herbert.

And it's such a human story.

And I think you capture that so beautifully.

Speaking of, Marianne is such a singular character.

I mean, The way that she experiences the world is just pure excitement.

And I think it's so exciting and inspiring to see local writers, you know, move across the pond and work on these big global projects like this.

It also stars Daisy Edgar Jones as Eleanor Dashwood and Esme Creed Miles as Marianne Dashwood.

It's directed by Georgia Oakley.

And so it's very, like, you know, female-dominated production cast, obviously, producers as well.

Jane Austen's 1811 novel of romance and sisterhood, Sense and Sensibility, returns to the big screen in a new adaptation starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esme Creed-Miles as chalk-and-cheese siblings Eleanor and Marianne Dashwood.

It's directed by the BAFTA-nominated filmmaker behind Blue Jean, Georgina Oakley, and taking on the role of the sister's mother is our own Katrina Balfe.

Recently, I met up with her to talk about the film.