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PostPosted: January 26th, 2006, 3:13 am 
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lol really?? I haven't read/seen any of the Bridget Jones's but that sounds hilarious! Whoever I talk to about P&P (including my grandmother) always bring up the wet shirt scene which can be rather disturbing coming from some people! (like my grandmother :blink:)

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Heheh yeah, I still find it strange that P&P purists don't mind the wet shirt scene even though it is quite un-Darcyish!

I'll try to type up some of Bridget's Colin Firth interview (the clean parts, at least :p) if I have some time - I think you'd all get a kick out of it.

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lol thanks that would be brilliant! :) Yeah the wet-shirt scene is pretty undarcyish perhaps the purists don't mind because the rest of the miniseries follows the book practically quote for quote (and the fact that probably most of them like Colin! :P ) Most of the versions of P&P have had Darcy doing odd things (like in the '05 version with Darcy walking through the mist early in the morning without his usual formal attire...but then again nobody seems to mind!! :blush:)

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*giggle* well, we're just rabid Darcy fans who'll give any excuse to see the man doing informal things... :lol:

Ok, found "interview" online and am posting relevant, clean parts. BJ = Bridget Jones, CF = Colin Firth.

BJ You know in Pride and Prejudice?

CF I do know in it, yes.

BJ When you had to dive into the lake?

CF Yes.

BJ When they had to do another take, did you have to take the wet shirt off and then put a dry one on?

CF Yes I, I probably did have to, yes.

BJ (BREATHING UNSTEADILY) How many takes did they have to do?

CF (COUGHS) Well. The underwater shots were a tank in Ealing Studios.

BJ Oh no.

CF I'm afraid so. The -um - moment of being airborne - extremely brief - was a stuntman.

BJ But it looked like Mr Darcy.

CF That was because he had stuck on sideburns and a Mr Darcy outfit on top of a wet suit, which actually made him look like Elvis as you last saw him. He could only do it once for insurance reasons and then he had to be checked for abrasions for about six weeks afterwards. All the other wet shirt shots were me.

BJ You know the other wet shirt shots?

CF Yes.

BJ Were they you?

CF Yes.

BJ And did the shirt have to keep being re-wet?

CF Yes. They'd spray it down. They'd spray it down and then...

BJ What with?

CF I'm sorry?

BJ What with?

CF A squirter thing. Look can we...

BJ Yes, but what I mean is did you ever have to take the shirt off and, and put another one on?

CF Yes.

BJ To be wet again?

CF Yes.

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BJ (SULKILY) Do you think that Mr Darcy has a political dimension?

CF I did speculate on what his politics might be, if he had any. And I don't think that they would be very appealing to a reader of The Independent. It's that pre-Victorian or Victorian idea of being the rich social benefactor, which would be very 'Thatcherite probably. I mean, the thought of socialism obviously hadn't entered the...

BJ No.

CF ... entered his sphere. And it is clearly stated by way of showing what a nice chap he is that he is very nice towards his tenants. But I think that he'd be closer to a sort of Nietzschian figure, a...

BJ What is neacher?

CF You know, the idea of the, er, human being as superman.

BJ Superman?

CF Not Superman himself, no. No (SLIGHT GROANING NOISE). I don't think he wore his underpants over his breeches, no. Look, I'd really like to get off this subject now.

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BJ Could I just check something about the shirt?

CF Yes.

BJ How many times altogether exactly did you have to take it off and put it on again?

CF Precisely... I don't know. Um. Let me see... there was the bit where I was walking towards Pemberley. That was shot once. One take. Then there was the bit where I give my horse to somebody... I think there was a change.

BJ (BRIGHTENING) There was a change?

CF (STRICTLY) There was. One change.

BJ So it was mainly just the one wet shirt, though?

CF The one wet shirt which they kept respraying, yes. All right?

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CF Is that it, then?

BJ No. What was it like with your friends when you started being Mr Darcy?

CF There were a lot of jokes about it: growling, "Mr Darcy" over breakfast and so on. There was a brief period when they had to work quite hard to hide their knowledge of who I really was and...

BJ Hide it from who?

CF Well, from anyone who suspected that perhaps I was like Mr Darcy.

BJ But do you think you're not like Mr Darcy?

CF I do think I'm not like Mr Darcy, yes.

BJ I think you're exactly like Mr Darcy.

CF In what way?

BJ You talk the same way as him.

CF Oh do I?

BJ You look exactly like him, and I, oh, oh...

PROTRACTED CRASHING NOISES FOLLOWED BY SOUNDS OF STRUGGLE

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LOL!! that's hilarious!!! :lol: Thank SO much for posting that Arwen! *finally stops laughing* It's pretty ironic as I heard that when Colin Firth told his brother that he was going to play Darcy he said "But isn't Darcy supposed to be sexy? "

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I've never heard that before! Wow, poor Colin... :teehee:

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Yay! *adds members to list*

I dunno which version I like better - the BBC one had the advantage of a lot more time to tell the story and develop the characters, but the '05 one seems more...realistic to me, and I like Matthew-Darcy more than Colin-Darcy :teehee:


I agree. Can I jion by the way Arwen?

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Arwen the webmaster wrote:
Yay! *adds members to list*

I dunno which version I like better - the BBC one had the advantage of a lot more time to tell the story and develop the characters, but the '05 one seems more...realistic to me, and I like Matthew-Darcy more than Colin-Darcy :teehee:

^I found the 0'5 version more realistic in terms of the houses, homes etc. It was the portrayal of characters I didn't like as much as the BBC version. Mr Bingly is meant to be a bit clumsy, but not that foolish, Wickham was almost likeable and Mr Colin's wasn't slimy enough for my liking!:P It's a pity about film time constraints as Lydia's elopement wasn't made that big a deal of. But then again, I'm a BBC version and Colin-Darcy fangirl, so I'm pretty biased! :blush:
I love the cinematography, music, and the grunginess in the 0'5 version!

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LOL!! that's hilarious!!! :lol: Thank SO much for posting that Arwen! *finally stops laughing* It's pretty ironic as I heard that when Colin Firth told his brother that he was going to play Darcy he said "But isn't Darcy supposed to be sexy? "


Wow. Colin Firth's brother has no taste whatsoever.

And that was really funny, Arwen. :jump:

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lol, that interview thing was hilarious! I haven't actually seen the 2005 version, but I think I might have to...

I was listeing to a radio verson of Emma and Mr Collins from the BBC series was Mr Elton - it was creeeeeeeeepy....

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^lol that must have been so freaky!! :-D

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I'm not completely obsessed with it, but I like Austen's writing style and I enjoyed the 05 movie. May I join please Arwen? :bounce:

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oo can i join, i love this movie! i am reading the book right now too!

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Not strictly P&P, but it does reference it - until next wednesday, up on the bbc7 site, at the 22.30 slot on http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/thursday/ this page, there is regency fm, which has a reference to p&p with 'championship matchmaking' with mrs bennet and her five daughters - lydia being typically indecent. if anyone is interested...

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May I join please?


That interview with Bridget Jones and Colin Firth was absolutely hysterical.

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OOOH! Arwen, can I please join? I love the Pride and Prejudice BBC version and of course the book more than anything! I warch the series almost every day! I have the 2005 version on dvd and I think it's quite good though I could find several things to complain about :) Maybe in particular Charlotte Lucas, she annoys me.. She says 'don't you dare judge me!' and that is not like her at all! She is not un-romantic because she can't afford it. She's un-romantic because she just is! argh..

And as to mr. Darcy (hehe). Well, I absolutely adore Colin Firth, but I think Matthew MacFadyen did a good job! He's very ... what's the word? Blue-eyed? Haha..

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