The Other Bennet Sister - Flicks (2026)

Mary is wearing spectacles. Very good. I hope you find them most useful. I do, Father. But she is a woman. Potatoes, Mary! In case she couldn't see them. One of the most popular novels of all time is Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. As we know, it's the story of Eliza Bennett. But she also had a not-as-attractive sister named Mary. I read Pride and Prejudice when I was in the 60s. I was on the football team, I read Pride and Prejudice, and I loved it so much I immediately re-read it. Now you will understand that I had to keep this information in the 1960s from my football colleagues, or I was a dead man on that football team. To what extent do you share any of that feeling about the Jane Austen world, and to what extent did they manage to create it for you so you could play in it? It really feels so relevant to now. There's all the same feelings and frustrations encapsulated in it, for me, anyway. I think Mary can look at some of the expectations of a woman at that time. She's quite unapologetic about who she is, or learns to be at least, and I think that's quite a modern idea. What didn't you want to do with this character? She doesn't have this ready charm or wit. We didn't want to fall into that makeover trope of, you know, she takes her glasses off and lets her hair down. We're really conscious not to do that on a very obvious level. When we fall in love with characters, you do begin to see somebody who maybe at first, all you were seeing were the little surface things here and there and what have you, but you begin to see them and they actually become, at least in my experience, they actually become more attractive to you because you're now filtering in their personality with the surface features. Would you accept that? Yeah, I think that's the story for me. It's the parts of her personality that yield themselves easily to the opposite sex. The very things that she feels are her flaws initially become the things that people are really attracted to, and it's not to do with appearance. It's to do with this lack of filter and the fact that she just speaks her mind and she's intelligent and, yeah, it's kind of a nice thing for her to feel that validation in who she really is. Yeah, I want to thank all three of you. I'm sorry for laughing, Patrick. No, no, what I gathered from the beginning is you guys get along. You start to lose it at a certain point, but we loved chatting to you. I kind of got that. Listen, thank you so much for your time. I do appreciate it. Flix with Patrick Stoner explores the craft and culture of films and streaming series that enhance our communities for television stations and websites around the country.