![]() ![]() It’s actually been published several times since 1871. When did you first come across the story of Lady Susan and what form was it in? Photo credit: Bernard Walsh, Courtesy of Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions. Whit Stillman on set of Love & Friendship. Delightfully risqué for the times, it’s easy to see why Stillman was so taken with the story and spent the time needed to ensure it was written properly.Ĭreative Screenwriting spoke with him about the project. On a search for a new husband for herself and one for her daughter, she heads to her in-laws to let the rumor mill die down about her possible involvement with a married man. Beautiful but devious, the young widow is irresistible to men. Lady Susan (Beckinsale) is, however, not your typical Austenian heroine. ![]() Over a decade later the finished product, Love & Friendship, stars Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny and is being praised for its authentically Austenian charm and wit. ![]() But he was so captivated by the story (which was never published in the writer’s lifetime) and its sharp comedy that he kept it as a side project and worked on it in between paid gigs. When Love & Friendship writer and director Whit Stillman began the task of adapting Jane Austen’s short epistolary novel Lady Susan for the screen, he knew it would be a long labor of love. ![]()
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