Meet the New Dashwoods: Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles Star in ‘Sense and Sensibility’
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles lead a version that puts sisterhood first, with Georgia Oakley aiming for a more intimate, naturalistic take on Austen.
- 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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How do you breathe new life into a story, hundreds of years old, that’s already had its fair share of adaptations? That’s the challenge Georgia Oakley faced when bringing Jane Austen’s “Sense & Sensibility” back to the big screen — a challenge she overcame pretty handily, turning the centuries-old story into an emotional, swooning, yearn-filled achievement. “It felt to me that there was an intimacy between this family, the Dashwoods, and the fac…
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