“Sense and Sensibility” Star Daisy Edgar-Jones

"Sense and Sensibility" Star Daisy Edgar-Jones
Air Date: Thursday, October 15^th

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Daisy Edgar-Jones on the Embarrassing Moment on Set of "Normal People" that Bonded Her and Paul Mescal

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Drew: I remember when 'Normal People' came onto the scene and it was just, it was such a big deal. And it felt like something that is rare in that sense where it just caught fire. Did you have any sense of that while you were making it? Did you think it would become this thing that launched your and Paul Mescal's career big time?

Daisy: There was so much magic in the air making that show, and I think, you know, I remember having this strange premonition the day before I got the call to say I'd got the part of Marianne. I had this sense of knowledge that something big was gonna shift in my life.

Drew: You have literally worked with every one of the internet's boyfriends. Like, for example, Paul Mescal. How did it feel working with Paul Mescal?

Daisy: I mean, I knew Paul pre-internet's boyfriend and now I know him post, and he deserves the title. He's a wonderful person and a brilliant actor, and I think, I mean I remember the first time I met Paul, we were both really polite, you know, and it's like you're a bit awkward and you're a bit nervous and so we were both like 'The scenes are great, aren't they? Yeah, absolutely incredible, the character, amazing' but very like serious, and so I was like, are we gonna have the craic, is this gonna be fun? And then week one we had our first kind of intimate scene and we were covered with all this fake sweat and whatever way it was happening, our bodies farted together and everybody on the set thought somebody had, and they were really polite about it, they were like, it's fine, it happened, it's natural, and we were like, no, like it, it wasn't anyway, it was super disarming -

Drew: Like that was a sweaty suction skin thing.

Daisy: Yes, and it was so embarrassing, but it like we laughed for days about it, and suddenly it was like bonded, we're bonded, we can just let go and enjoy these characters and be friends, and it was so, it was that was great.

Daisy on What Moment from Filming Made Her Laugh the Hardest and the Film's Message About Love

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Drew: OK, last time you've laughed so hard you almost tinkled. Which, guess what, that happens so easily the longer you live.

Daisy: I almost tinkled filming, okay I laughed so much I almost tinkled filming 'Sense and Sensibility.'

Drew: How come?

Daisy: Because there's a moment in the movie where it's quite a romantic moment where George as Edward drops to one knee and during filming it he dropped to one knee and his trousers split and he'd knelt on sheep poo and his line was, 'Miss Dashwood, what I have to offer, it's not much.'

Drew: By the way, that is a really beautiful sentiment and message in the film actually is it is a lot about choosing love over you know, station and materialism and all of that, and I've always loved that. I've never dated someone because I thought they had something to offer. I've only fallen in love with who I just couldn't help myself, fall in love with.

Daisy: I know, and I think also for that time especially it was such a tricky thing to be a woman and navigate love and for the fact that the Dashwoods choose for love and that Miss Dashwood encourages that is a really beautiful thing.

Drew: It really is and we need to encourage that, it's you know, that's the most important thing in the world.

Daisy on Being Excited About the Female Sisterhood in "Sense and Sensibility"

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Drew: The woman who plays your sister in it, Esme, she's so mesmerizing, and you two together, I think is what the love story of 'Sense and Sensibility' is also about, are these two females and how they live for each other and their happiness, and to me like romance and love is not always of a romantic nature.

Daisy: Yeah, I think you're so right, it's the part of the love, it's the love story I'm most excited by in this film. I don't have any siblings, only child, we get, you get it. So I think the sisterhood part of the Dashwoods was always what I loved and actually the female resilience in this story and the fact that by the end the women have gifted each other knowledge and balance, and actually their connection is the beating heart of the entire film.

Drew: I fully agree and I have two daughters, so like even your own sister can give you the amount of love and wholeness. Like if that's intact, everything else is gravy, but who are we kidding? Of course we want love at the end of the day, but I just, I found this interpretation of this book so winning and incredible and just once again, Daisy Edgar-Jones, well done.

Drew on the Influence of Emma Thompson in the Original "Sense and Sensibility" for "Ever After"

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Drew: Okay I have to admit something which is that I have never seen the original 'Sense and Sensibility' if you can believe it.

Daisy: Oh my goodness there's still time.

Drew: Well it was very, the only thing I know about it is my partner in business, Nan loved so much this moment with Emma Thompson when she bursts into tears that she'd tell me about it and then I tried to adopt the moment in this film I did called 'Ever After' in honor of her, not having seen it. She does this thing where she puts her face in her hands and you don't know what is happening underneath and then when she reveals it, there's tears. So I walked into your film not having any reference except the novel and this is a beloved, iconic Jane Austen masterpiece.