Matthew Macfadyen is trying again at his profession and regretting not having fun with his expertise filming 2005’s Delight and Prejudice.
The Succession alum performed Mr. Darcy in Joe Wright’s adaptation of the basic Jane Austen novel enjoying reverse Kiera Knightley.
“I didn’t actually [enjoy it],” Macfadyen stated on CBS Mornings of his expertise filming. “I really feel unhealthy saying that. There have been moments I had fun, however I want I loved it extra. I want I used to be much less frightened about it.”
He added, “I felt a bit miscast, like, ‘I’m not dishy sufficient. Nevertheless it labored out.”
Regardless of not feeling like he was match for the position, the Deadpool & Wolverine actor says, “Essentially the most flattering factor that occurs to me now could be individuals say, ‘Had been you Mr. Darcy?’ It’s a superb 20 years later. So I feel, ‘I can’t be growing old that badly.’”
Delight & Prejudice additionally starred Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Tom Hollander, Penelope Wilton, Judi Dench, Simon Woods, Carey Mulligan, Talulah Riley, Rupert Pal, and lots of extra.
The director stated that casting Knightley within the position of Elizabeth Bennet allowed him to solid Macfadyen as Mr. Darcy.
“I feel Matthew is clearly much less of a star than Keira, and so if she hadn’t been enjoying Elizabeth, I’m undecided I’d been allowed to solid Matthew [as Darcy],” Wright stated in an interview with MovieFreak. “So, it type of labored like that. You attempt to stability it out as a lot as you’ll be able to.”
In the identical interview, Wright additionally famous that Macfadyen is “among the finest actors of his era in England however, additionally, I knew he would strategy the position like all good actor ought to, and that’s from the point-of-view of making an attempt to grasp the character.”
“He’s the least useless actor you’ve ever met in your life and he wasn’t coming onto this making an attempt to painting an icon, he was approaching to play a personality in the identical approach he would, had he been approaching Hamlet or another nice position,” Wright stated.
Watch Macfadyen’s interview on CBS Mornings within the video under.
