Focus Features and Working Title’s “Sense and Sensibility” has rounded out its cast with George MacKay, Caitríona Balfe, Fiona Shaw and more joining Daisy Edgar-Jones in the Jane Austen adaptation.
The fresh take on Austen’s first novel — which follows the differing romantic journeys of sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood after their father’s death forces them to leave their family’s estate — has officially started filming in the United Kingdom.
Alongside Edgar-Jones and Esme Creed-Miles as Elinor and Marianne, Balfe (“Belfast,” “Outlander”) will star as their mother Mrs. Dashwood, MacKay (“1917”) is set to play Elinor’s love interest Edward Ferrars and Shaw (“Echo Valley,” “Harry Potter” franchise) will portray Mrs. Jennings, whom the sisters stay with when they visit London. “Urchin” breakout Frank Dillane stars as Marianne’s initial love interest John Willoughby, Herbert Nordrum (“The Worst Person in the World”) as her later suitor Colonel Brandon and Bodhi Rae Breathnach (Chloe Zhao’s upcoming “Hamnet”) as the youngest Dashwood sister Margaret.
The news of Focus and Working Title’s “Sense and Sensibility” was announced last month along with Edgar-Jones’ casting as Elinor. The novel has been adapted for the screen several times before, most notably for Ang Lee’s 1995 film starring Emma Thompson as Elinor, Kate Winslet as Marianne and Hugh Grant as Edward.