EXCLUSIVE: Three a long time on from her Oscar-winning film, Emma Thompson is returning to the world of Sense and Sensibility with an Audible podcast telling the story of the youngest Dashwood sister.
Thompson is producing and main sequel Changing into Meg Dashwood with an ensemble together with Emmy-nominee Erin Doherty (Adolescence), BAFTA-winner Naomi Ackie (Mickey 17), Child Reindeer star Jessica Gunning, performing legend Imelda Staunton, Liz Carr, Paterson Joseph, Greg Smart and Golda Rosheuvel.
The drama picks up the place Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility left off, with Thompson enjoying Margaret Dashwood in what’s described as a “riotous, rebellious interval drama about feminine friendship, sexuality and liberation.” Contemporary off her astonishing flip in Netflix’s Adolescence, Doherty performs Margaret’s youthful self Meg and Ackie is her lover Nelly. Carr performs Mrs Dashwood, Gunning is Hester and Staunton is Mrs Jennings.
Penned by Rebecca Humphries and with music from Natasha Khan AKA Bat For Lashes, the pod comes some 30 years after Ang Lee’s hit Sense and Sensibility adaptation, which gained Thompson an Oscar for Finest Tailored Screenplay. The film garnered seven Oscar nods and in addition starred Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant and the late Alan Rickman.
Thompson mentioned: “I’m very thrilled and proud to have been part of bringing Audible and Rebecca Humphries’ extraordinary drama to life. Their imaginative and prescient for the youngest Dashwood sister takes us from Austen’s world into the extra hidden components of girls’s lives, components that weren’t written about on the time, a minimum of not overtly. I believe Austen would have been fascinated and delighted with the language and with the story, and gladdened by the will to take one among her characters and provides her a future and a giant, surprising voice.”
Produced by Polly Thomas for Thomas Carter Tasks, Changing into Meg Dashwood is directed by Jo Tyabji (Sam Mendes’ Bleak Home, Antigone). It comes quickly after Audible unveiled multilingual Delight of Prejudice remakes starring Marisa Abela, Harris Dickinson, Glenn Shut, Lyna Khoudri and Lucas Bravo.
