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Actresses who have considered playing the role of Jane Austen include: Kate Winslet , Natalie Hershlag, and Keira Christina Knightley .
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In order to prepare for this film, Anne Hathaway learned to play the piano and also practiced pronunciation with a dialect teacher.
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In this scene of the ballroom, there are 300 extras, who were invited by the Irish Minister of Culture John O'Donohue .
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Anne Hathaway was not initially regarded by the director as a candidate to play Jane Austen, because she was too sweet American. But an unexpected thing happened. Before the interview, Annie's dog ate a slipper in its stomach, and Annie had to look after it all night. When she hadn't slept all night, when she faced the director the next day, her haggard and unhappy expression made the director suddenly feel that Annie was no longer a stupid eldest sister. And in order to get rid of her American taste, she moved to London five weeks before the filming started, learned how to play the piano, and followed a coach to learn the accent of Hampshire, England in 1775. In order to imitate Jane's brown curly hair, Annie had to keep curling her hair three times a day when it rained, so that her hair was simply not decent after the movie was filmed .
Becoming Jane behind the scenes gags
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Tom Lefroy: What rules of conduct apply in this rural situation? We have been introduced, have we not?
Jane Austen: What value is there in an introduction when you cannot even remember my name? Indeed, can barely stay awake in my presence.
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Mrs. Radcliffe: Of what do you wish to write?
Jane Austen: Of the heart.
Mrs. Radcliffe: Do you know it?
Jane Austen: Not all of it.
Mrs. Radcliffe: In time, you will. But even if that fails, that's what the imagination is for.