The American SetA Marianne Dashwood Who Came to the Part Without the 1995 Version in Her Head
Esme Creed-Miles takes on Marianne Dashwood in the new Sense and Sensibility, and she arrived at the role having deliberately left the 1995 film unwatched. For a reader who keeps an Austen on the nightstand through the season, that is the interesting choice: the most impulsive, feeling-first of Austen's leading women, played by an actress who describes herself as quiet by nature. Creed-Miles is the daughter of Samantha Morton, which makes the restraint of coming to such a well-loved character on her own terms all the more notable.
With reporting from Vanity Fair.