My ginger Mr Darcy will break barriers, jokes Jack Lowden

Thomas Mackintosh BBC News, London Actor Jack Lowden has said he likes the idea of “breaking down barriers” by being a ginger Mr Darcy in a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The 34-year-old joked on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that “it is one of the great last barriers to break … Read more

Netflix’s Pride and Prejudice casts its Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darcy

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