Matthew Macfadyen is trying again at his profession and regretting not having fun with his expertise filming 2005’s Satisfaction and Prejudice.
The Succession alum performed Mr. Darcy in Joe Wright’s adaptation of the traditional Jane Austen novel taking part in reverse Kiera Knightley.
“I didn’t actually [enjoy it],” Macfadyen stated on CBS Mornings of his expertise filming. “I really feel unhealthy saying that. There have been moments I had fun, however I want I loved it extra. I want I used to be much less frightened about it.”
He added, “I felt a bit miscast, like, ‘I’m not dishy sufficient. But it surely labored out.”
Regardless of not feeling like he was match for the position, the Deadpool & Wolverine actor says, “Probably the most flattering factor that occurs to me now’s folks say, ‘Had been you Mr. Darcy?’ It’s 20 years later. So I feel, ‘I can’t be growing older that badly.’”
Satisfaction & Prejudice additionally starred Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Tom Hollander, Penelope Wilton, Judi Dench, Simon Woods, Carey Mulligan, Talulah Riley, Rupert Buddy, and plenty of extra.
The director stated that casting Knightley within the position of Elizabeth Bennet allowed him to forged Macfadyen as Mr. Darcy.
“I feel Matthew is clearly much less of a star than Keira, and so if she hadn’t been taking part in Elizabeth, I’m unsure I’d been allowed to forged Matthew [as Darcy],” Wright stated in an interview with MovieFreak. “So, it type of labored like that. You attempt to steadiness it out as a lot as you may.”
In the identical interview, Wright additionally famous that Macfadyen is “probably the greatest actors of his technology in England however, additionally, I knew he would method the position like several good actor ought to, and that’s from the point-of-view of making an attempt to grasp the character.”
“He’s the least useless actor you’ve ever met in your life and he wasn’t coming onto this making an attempt to painting an icon, he was approaching to play a personality in the identical method he would, had he been approaching Hamlet or every other nice position,” Wright stated.
Watch Macfadyen’s interview on CBS Mornings within the video beneath.
