Sense and Sensibility - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[aaron]

This movie's release and popularity saw the original novel return to the New York Times' Bestseller list.

[victoria]

The apple-green day dress Harriet Walter (Fanny Dashwood) wears trimming hats with Lucy Steele is the same costume worn by Henry's new partner (seated next to Mary's new partner) at the end of Mansfield Park (1999).

[sophie]

Kate Winslet admitted that she was terrified of Alan Rickman when she met him in the hair and make-up trailer. She thought he would think she was a terrible actress and get her fired. After a week or two, she got to know him, and realized how sweet and warm he was. She ended up adoring him, and worked with him again, as her director and co-star, on A Little Chaos (2014).

[aaron]

The excerpt that Colonel Brandon reads to Marianne near the end of this movie ("nothing's lost but may be found if sought...") belongs to Edmund Spenser's epic poem 'The Faerie Queene' (1590). It is part of the second canto in Book V: Justice.

[marc]

The tall green military-style hat with a peacock feather worn by an extra at the Covent Garden coffee shop is the same one worn by Christina Cole (Caroline Bingley) at Pemberley during the shooting contest in Lost in Austen (2008).

[bryan]

Dame Emma Thompson's first draft of the screenplay consisted of three hundred fifty hand-written pages. The final draft was a culmination of that and thirteen other drafts, which were written over four and a half years.

[veronica]

Director Ang Lee originally was considering Kate Winslet only for the smaller part of Lucy Steele, even though she really wanted to play Marianne. When Winslet arrived at her audition, she pretended that her agent had sent her to read for Marianne, and her reading won her the role.

[cameron]

Marianne Dashwood's wedding dress was trimmed with straw.

[norma]

Marianne (Kate Winslet) is, at some point, carried by almost all of the leading men in this movie. Willoughby (Greg Wise), Colonel Brandon (Alan Rickman), and Mr. Palmer (Hugh Laurie).

[camila]

Hugh Grant was always first choice to play Edward Ferrars. He agreed to reduce his normal salary in order to help with the budget.

[clayton]

The cast includes two Oscar winners: Dame Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet; and two Oscar nominees: Tom Wilkinson and Imelda Staunton.

[jesse]

Miss Gray's dowry of £50,000 at the time this movie was set would be equivalent to nearly £3 million in 2018.

[jessica]

The wine-colored muslin dress, beige pelisse and matching bonnet Kate Winslet (Marianne Dashwood) wears for the Dashwoods' arrival at Barton Cottage is the same costume Cesca Martin wears for her arrival at Regency House in The Regency House Party (2004). The dress is also worn by an extra at the Meryton Assembly Ball in Pride & Prejudice (2005).

[francisco]

The scene where Willoughby rescues Marianne in driving rain took about fifty takes. This resulted in Kate Winslet contracting hypothermia.