Meet the new Dashwoods: Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles star in ‘Sense and Sensibility’
- Director Georgia Oakley's adaptation of "Sense and Sensibility" opens Friday, October 16, 2026, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esme Creed-Miles as the Dashwood sisters in the first major version directed by a woman.
- To capture an authentic relationship, Oakley stripped away ornate Regency traditions while Edgar-Jones and Creed-Miles leveraged their real-life history from a formative summer filming together in Yorkshire as teenagers.
- While fans often favor the 1995 film, Edgar-Jones notes that great literature invites fresh interpretations; this version explores Jane Austen's themes of patriarchy and exhaustion women faced during Britain's Regency era.
- The Dashwood sisters emerge as relatable to modern audiences, with Creed-Miles portraying Marianne as the "opposite of a wallflower" thriving in social settings, while Edgar-Jones notes women today relate to pressure to be "good."
- This production marks the first adaptation of Austen's novel with women in both director and screenwriter roles, with Creed-Miles emphasizing that having "authorship there that is lived in" brings unique authenticity to the classic.
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Meet the new Dashwoods: Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles star in
Daisy Edgar-Jones just wanted to know who her Marianne was going to be. After a lifetime of dreaming in Jane Austen — reading every novel and watching every adaptation she could get her hands on — she’d
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Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles Bring New Life to ‘Sense and Sensibility’
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles star as sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood in a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, directed by Georgia Oakley. Drawing on their longstanding friendship, the actors developed an authentic sisterly bond while helping shape a more naturalistic portrayal of Regency-era life. The film explores the emotional lives of the Dashwood women through a fresh visual approach that aims to introduce A…
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