Principal photography for Pride & Prejudice film started this month six years ago
The 4-time Academy Award (and 2-time Golden Globe) nominated 2005 film, Pride & Prejudice starring Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen began filming six years ago this month (July 19th). The film was shot entirely on location in the UK, including Derbyshire, Wiltshire and Kent. The P&P cast and crew spent their most fun and "happiest" summer (3 months!) filming the movie from July to October 2004.
In retrospect, here are a compilation of various cast interviews (mostly, you've read/heard them from the P&P DVD extras) and what the cast said their experiences were like filming P&P movie and bonding with each other...
"Filming Pride & Prejudice (2005) was a joy and made for one of my happiest summers ever. "It could well be that the story brings out the best in people - and it sounds so cheesy, but we really did behave like a family. The girls playing the younger sisters had never been on a film set before and wanted to socialize all the time, so we picnicked, hung out in a beautiful country house and went swimming naked in a lake. It was idyllic." - Rosamund Pike
About her Pride & Prejudice (2005) co-stars: We were like one big family. We took over the house. It was so much fun. Brenda Blethyn (Mrs Bennet) mummied us all - when we had days off she took us on day trips to a llama farm. - Carey Mulligan
What do you remember about that filming experience?
I walked on and had never acted professionally, let alone in a film, so I got coached through it by Joe Wright and I copied everything that Jena Malone did, because she played almost a twin, so I basically did everything she did. And that was how I got through it ... It was an incredibly tight gang of people. Joe Wright does that brilliantly, he builds families while he builds his casts and he makes you spend a lot of time together, so you do kind of form those relationships. And that comes off in his films really well. - Carey Mulligan (via movie fone)
Carey told the press that working with Keira in 2005’s “Pride and Prejudice” helped her develop her acting style in a major way.
“I was a real tomboy until was 15 – I didn't have my first kiss until a month away from being 16. So I just copied everything Keira did for weeks. She is still amazing to me.”
“That was a mad hippie summer – a party every weekend, lots of jumping naked into the lake. And I ate everything; my face ballooned. I realized catering is a very dangerous thing!”- Carey Mulligan
Tom Hollander: It was just me and Keira and Talulah... and all the girls playing Sardines in a cupboard. That was one of the happiest days of my life. [laughs...and dances in the background as Mr. Collins, lol]
Talulah Riley: To bond and to get to know the house... we decided to play the game Sardines... where one person hides and then everybody goes to look for them.
Brenda Blethyn: It's been so happy, a kind of idyllic in that house. And the friendships and the camaraderie, it's just heaven. And I don't want it to end, to be honest.
In retrospect, here are a compilation of various cast interviews (mostly, you've read/heard them from the P&P DVD extras) and what the cast said their experiences were like filming P&P movie and bonding with each other...
"Filming Pride & Prejudice (2005) was a joy and made for one of my happiest summers ever. "It could well be that the story brings out the best in people - and it sounds so cheesy, but we really did behave like a family. The girls playing the younger sisters had never been on a film set before and wanted to socialize all the time, so we picnicked, hung out in a beautiful country house and went swimming naked in a lake. It was idyllic." - Rosamund Pike
About her Pride & Prejudice (2005) co-stars: We were like one big family. We took over the house. It was so much fun. Brenda Blethyn (Mrs Bennet) mummied us all - when we had days off she took us on day trips to a llama farm. - Carey Mulligan
What do you remember about that filming experience?
I walked on and had never acted professionally, let alone in a film, so I got coached through it by Joe Wright and I copied everything that Jena Malone did, because she played almost a twin, so I basically did everything she did. And that was how I got through it ... It was an incredibly tight gang of people. Joe Wright does that brilliantly, he builds families while he builds his casts and he makes you spend a lot of time together, so you do kind of form those relationships. And that comes off in his films really well. - Carey Mulligan (via movie fone)
“I was a real tomboy until was 15 – I didn't have my first kiss until a month away from being 16. So I just copied everything Keira did for weeks. She is still amazing to me.”
“That was a mad hippie summer – a party every weekend, lots of jumping naked into the lake. And I ate everything; my face ballooned. I realized catering is a very dangerous thing!”- Carey Mulligan
Tom Hollander: It was just me and Keira and Talulah... and all the girls playing Sardines in a cupboard. That was one of the happiest days of my life. [laughs...and dances in the background as Mr. Collins, lol]
Talulah Riley: To bond and to get to know the house... we decided to play the game Sardines... where one person hides and then everybody goes to look for them.
Brenda Blethyn: It's been so happy, a kind of idyllic in that house. And the friendships and the camaraderie, it's just heaven. And I don't want it to end, to be honest.
Thank you Jeane for keeping P&P alive in our hearts and God bless Joe Wright for filming such amazing movie!
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