Colin Firth as Mr Darcy

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I haven't watched this in years.

Good lord. Has there ever been a better - or fitter - bit of casting than this?

Much as I love Richard Armitage in North and South...

Darcy's hair alone has me going weak at the knees though the wine may have something to do with that too

Yes, Emotions, I do, purely because I love him in the BBC version and in the book and was so sad he was so pervy in the Death one .

YouTube version is the Emma Approved one, it's still going. The producers made the Lizzie Bennet Diaries that I talked about up thread, that was amazing but I can't get into the Emma version. I like Kate Beckinsale in the ITV Emma but she and Mark Strong doesn't work for me as a pairing.

N and S is on Netflix, as is Emma and S and S. Oh, and obv P and P too.

Not going to read the thread at all
Just the title, mmm...

Sputnik your post (bath pic) gave me goosebumps then made me laugh :)

Another thread I love on MN! Two in one day! Can the bile and misery of the last few months be a thing of the past?

Ah but I like the dvds Emily always available!

I also prefer actual books to my Kindle, I know, I know [sad old gimmer emoticon].

Thanks!
Don't think I've seen the Toby Stephens Rochester/Jane Eyre before...
Have found it on you tube and was going to start watching ...but sense has prevailed -I really do need to sleep ...will have to keep it for tomorrow night when Dcs are in bed (it is only 4 hrs!!) ...

You had me at Colin

Is it true he wasn't wet in the film!? But everyone thinks he was!?

I do like DVD extras and things Emotions but I live on my ipad so much easier to watch from here! than drag a laptop in as we still haven't connected a DVD player to the tv!

Is it sad that I am enjoying talking about period dramas so much? And on AIBU of all places? . Somehow we need to keep this thread going .

Loved Colin Firth in Love Actually (he stole the film for me)

Toby S was crackalackin in the Tenant of W. Hall

Looking forward to 'Black Sails' when released in September (I think it's September)

Don't know Stampy I do know that he never dived into the lake, they used a double. He did dive into a pool at the studio, there was a brick or something that got left in and he hurt and nearly broke his nose! Oh, and read today that Andrew Davies had wanted originally for it to be full frontal nudity! What would E have said then?! . I love the bit where Mrs Gardiner says he is as handsome as his portrait ' though perhaps a little less formally attired'

I love P&P and N&S. I'd do dirty and immoral things to RA in a phone box given half the chance . That man can't half smoulder and the kiss scene in N&S is so worth the four hours leading up to it. His character is so passionate.

Dingalong I am tired and DH is asleep in bed next to me, but soo tempted to put on headphones and watch P and P on Netflix . Best part is definitely the Pemberley arc. One tiny criticism of the 1995 version is the lack of Mrs B reaction to the engagement. My favourite line ever is where Mrs B wants E to apologise to D for Mrs B disliking him . 'I hope he will overlook it!' I also wanted some cuteness between them, and Bingley's reactions when he knows and the family don't I have never seen on an adaptation.

I love RA too Tribble. Have done since he was in the Vicar of Dibley all cute and scrumptious.

I know I go against the Mumsnet grain, but I adore Alison Steadman at Mrs Bennet, I think she's fab. But that's probably because I love her in everything I've ever seen her in. She would be one of my fantasy dinner party guests.

I have never, or only very vaguely, heard of North & South. I feel like I need to know more...

Fab thread OP!

Another big Colin Firth fan here for Mr Darcy. As much as I like Tom, he's a mere boy in comparison

Alan Rickman also a fab Colonel Brandon, and also think Emma Thompson is excellent too.

I have two words to say about Colin Firth as Mr Darcy.
And they are both spelled Y U M.

JapaneseMargaret North and South has Richard Armitage in it, what more is there to say?

Emily RA in Vicar of Dibley, Spooks, North and South, Robin Hood, just anything, anything at all.

Oh and Japanese I agree with you about Alison Steadman as Mrs Bennet, and other stuff she is in.

JapaneseMargaret I like AS too. I think she is a brilliant Mrs B. And N and S is by Elizabeth Gaskell, she wrote Cranford too, if you saw that on tv. N and S is darker but brilliant. Set in the factories in the Industrial Revolution. And it has RA in, see images up thread .

Yes Emotions, happy to see RA in anything . Reprisal of lake scene maybe?!

Me too in the Alison Steadman camp - she's absolutely superb.

Emily Richard Armitage emerging from the lake with a wet shirt, now there's a scene I'd love to see.

I think AS's portrayal of Mrs Bennet makes Lydia's behaviour easier to understand, you can see where she gets it from. There's a lovely story AS tells in a book I have about the making of Pride and Prejudice, I'll have to dig it out and put it on here.