“Casting the film as diversely as possible not only expands its audience, it emphasises the universality of its love story beyond its Georgian England confines,” Jones says. “We have an opportunity to completely reimagine the British period drama in a mould hopefully others will follow. More importantly, it’s nice to think that we might make the day of many people who studied the literature, who imagined themselves to be Mr Darcy or Lizzy Bennet, but never saw themselves or their cultures reflected on screen.”
