Of all of the movies I have seen that were based on books I have read, there are only two of which I thought the movie was better than the book by some degree – Devil Wears Prada and The Help. After seeing the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies trailer, I am convinced it will become my third. Each of the three actresses playing the Bennet sister gets their own Marie Claire cover for their Next Big Thing January issue (those Bennet b!tches get everything).
As for the fashion Suki Waterhouse’s top is romantic; I love that soft lilac color. Both she and Lily James opted for the fly-catcher mouth to pose. Bella Heathcote’s silver-spiked, space-aged with bows look is cute and I love her make-up. However, I don’t know what has come over me but so help, me I love the dress on Lily. It’s like Peter Max met Humphrey Llwyd and they thought, “What goes with a psychedelic Cambriea Typus? Oh, how about some furbelows!” You can read all the excerpted quotes here – they are pretty entertaining:
Lily James (Elizabeth Bennet)
On dating her costar Matt Smith: “He just made me laugh all the time. I actually loved being able to talk about work. It was great that he had to propose to me.’”Bella Heathcote (Jane Bennet)
On girl power and her role in PPZ: “It’s really empowering to beat the sh-t out of people. It’s also pretty rare for me to be in a film where we get to kick ass.”Suki Waterhouse (Kitty Bennet)
On dying her hair for the film: “You watch America’s Next Top Model, and you’re like, ‘Why are these girls crying about their hair?’ But then it happens to you! It sounds so pathetic, but I definitely cried.”
Now go back and read each of those quotes with their characters in mind – better, right? Considering Matt Smith plays Mr. Collins (whose proposal Elizabeth rejects), it makes Lily’s quote that much funnier. She likes to wear suspicious rings on her left hand, ring finger but continuously denies it is anything more than jewelry. She wears a lot of rings in general so I think she just sees her fingers as more landscape rather than trying to send a message – or maybe she gets a kick out of messing with us.
As for Suki’s hair color quote – I hear you; I read stuff like this and my eyes roll right to the back of my head. “Ugh, it’s hair, it’s dye – it’s temporary!” I might say, out loud. That’s when The Mister asks what I am on my soapbox about and responds stupidly like, “You mean like that time you cried because you died your hair dark brown?” Maybe long time partners aren’t all they’re cracked up to be because they remember your twenties. Why does the state of my hair affect me so much? I had a waiter bring me the wrong dessert the other night and I handled that okay, but I will take to my bed after a bad cut.
*Unabashed Affection Alert* I just fell madly in love with Bella Heathcote. I do not actually advocate the desire to do bodily harm, but that has to be a fun thing to say when you play Jane Bennet; Jane Bennet would never say something like that. No qualifier, no remorse – “It was awesome.” Bella also talks about falling in lust at first sight as opposed to love at first sight – this chick gets me, I’m telling you.
Photos credit: Simon Emmett for Marie Claire
“Those Bennett b!tches get everything.”
Sigh… They really do. All I want for Christmas is Mr. Darcy.
As far as hair… I hear you, Suki. I once had a full scale panic attack after realizing that I actually cut all my hair off, which resulted in my first sew-in weave.
I don’t like cutting my hair, but I will and I have dyed it every colour under the sun, used wigs, wiglets and any manner of artifice from thread (hated that!) to feathers.
The transformation is mesmerising.
Started by watching my mum and her Diana Ross/Boney M obsession where she used her hair to style herself according to whichever one of them she was feeling that day.
I still have my mum’s beaded, braids wig from the 70s. On a dummy.
I’ve really been enjoying your posts, Hecate! I like to play a game where I don’t see who wrote the post before reading it, and then seeing if I can tell based on writing, and I have been right about yours every time 😉
Ditto to everything you wrote, Fran. I play the game too and Hecate’s has a refreshingly distinct prose. 🙂
Me, three! I play the game and I heart Hecate’s write ups.
And me also! ” fly-catcher mouth” had my chuckling and I’ve only had one cup of coffee.
Maybe it’s because I’ve never had “crowning glory” type of hair (mine is fine but yet frizzy, and it curls but not from the roots…when I was younger I really looked like I had a brillo pad for hair) but I’ve never understood why people freak out so much about their hair. I’ve cut mine short, dyed it, bleached it, and so on. It’s never permanent, after all, and even if I hated it I knew it was only temporary.
I’m not pointing and laughing at those who do panic about it, I just can’t wrap my mind around the concept.
Me either. But then I have a very short pixie cut and my attitude is always, “Eh, it will grow back.”
It depends on your face. Some people look good with everything. The beauty that is my face needs the right haircut. Plus, I’m so pale that with a colour that is too dark I look half dead.
Generally that is my attitude as well. But when I hit 50 I noticed the appalling trend of thinning hair. That and its changing texture have me in fits when I try to get it looking decent for work. The wash and scrunch with curling cream is not longer cutting it – it looks like strings around my face instead of lush curls. This morning I am going to straighten it and it is currently a blow dried halo standing out 5 inches in all directions. I *might* sob, I’m not sure yet…
I’m with you, I’ll try anything color or style-wise. But since I’ve never had a great head of hair I’ve never lost a great head of hair.
is brillo pad …. white talk for kinky hard to manage hair ????
I think lily James is so pretty, but I was so embarrassed to watch an interview of hers. She’s quite an airhead and it was incredibly awkward.
That said, I once tried to look her up on Pinterest because I liked an outfit she wore, and all I got was Harry Potter fan fic art. Very risqué drawings. It took me a but to realize why (her name is the combination of Harry’s parents first two names lily and James) and now that’s all I think about when I see her.
I’ve never cried over my hair but have definitely had some rage about it! Some time ago I went in to get 1 tone highlights and came out of the hairdresser with PURPLE hair. I almost had a fit right there, especially because my hair goes light (and orange, curse you ginger genes) in a nano second but it’s almost impossible to dye it dark. I think I showered 5 times a day and avoided leaving the house because in my mind I looked ridiculous.
So yeah, I get it.
I don’t understand people who don’t get upset when their hair gets f-cked up!
I always roll my eyes, too, when girls talk about crying over their hair… but then I remember back to when I was a kid and suffered serious Bob Haircut Trauma. So I get it.
I think Lilly had to dye her hair blonde for Downton/Cinderella, unless those were wigs. She rocks both colours though!
I don’t get crying over your hair. I guess I could understand being upset about a bad hair cut since you’re pretty much stuck with it for a while but hair dye can usually be changed in some form or fashion.
I get the hair thing. Maybe that’s why I have only trimmed it in the past decade, ha! I’ve had it long most of my life, did have a pixie I loved, but after the last kid, it became super curly and even thicker and I saw what happened when I was growing out the pixie. There were a lot of hats involved for about a year.
Suki looks like someone snapped her pic on their phone while they were out shopping. Crappy make up and styling and her eyebrows aren’t level … she’s a model first, right?
She’s a model the same way Jessica Biel is an actress – the real reason why they started getting attention is for having famous boyfriends. I’m not surprised she doesn’t make much of a model here.
Hair Trauma is REAL. In 9th grade I went for a hair trim, and the girl cut me bangs that were literally….wisps. Like think Emma Watson on top and front, and Tawny Kitaen in the back. I had a full-on Mullet thing, and then I screamed and cried and missed 3 days of school. I wore my hair in a French braid for two months. Oh my god. It was terrible. LMAO. My parents thought I had lost my mind. Just bad.
Well, I can remember coming out of the hair salon in tears. Because hair butchering doesn’t just go away the next day—you’re stuck with it for a few months. I think every woman friend I’ve ever known has come out of a salon in tears or in a rage sometime or other. I went to a couple of hair stylists over the years who would barely touch my hair, just snipping the tiniest bit off the length, because they thought I was too emotional about my hair, and it stressed them out. Hahaha!
There is only one “t” in Bennet for Austen’s characters.
Oh my word – thank you, Argirl. I succumbed to spellcheck on that, an egregious error. I edited it accordingly.
Yeah, I still don’t get it. I really haven’t cried or been upset about my hair since I was about 6, and wasn’t allowed to grow out my bangs… And I’ve had some horrendous hairstyles over the years. IMO, a lot of hairdressers truly suck at their job, and if my hair is going to get messed up, I’d rather mess it up myself than pay someone else a days worth of salary to do it for me, so now I stick to cutting and dying it myself.
models should not cry about their hair. it is in their job description.
I had a Britney moment a couple years before she did, had a full on metdown and chopped off ALL my hair. Like I could literally towel dry it out of the shower it was so short. It was extremely liberating, but hair is emotional for a lot of women.