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Matthew Macfadyen improvised hand flex in ‘Pride & Prejudice’

Sophia Martin
Sophia Martin
Published April 17, 2025
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The hand that almost never flexed.

“Pride and prejudice” The director Joe Wright revealed that the moment of the letter but powerful in which the hand of Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen) trembled after helping Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightley) to her car was improvised by Macfadyen, 50.

“I was in the script, but that was an important moment in the book,” said Wright, 52. People In an interview, on Wednesday published before the twentieth anniversary of the films.

Matthew Macfadyen in “Pride & Prejudice”. Focus featurers
The hand of Mr. Darcy. Focus features

“This sudden realization, as they were separating, or what they meant to each other, or the type of disturbance that were caused with each other,” explained the British filmmaker.

The moment in which Mr. Darcy’s hand flexes, which is used to viral Tap In 2021, important for the relationship of his and Elizabeth and “transmitting the intelligence of our bodies really was about our minds,” Wright said.

Joe Wright in the Mania Festival series in France on March 22, 2025. Getty images

“Our bodies are much smarter than our minds. Although their conscious minds fight each other, their bodies are two magnets attracted to each mind,” Wright told The Outlet.

“While they touch, just that little hand lifting the help, which is pure label of the time, somehow creates this son of electronic shock wave through both, and has to shake it,” he added.

While the professional scene between Macfadyen and the Knightley characters is loved today, Wright admitted that at that time not to think it was so significant.

Brenda Blethyn, Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen in “Pride and Prejudice.” © Focus Movies/Cortesy Everett Collection

“I had one leg a gloomy day when we shot it,” he recalled. “I felt that I had transmitted what I wanted, and it is strange and gratifying to discover that we told our story, and people have responded.”

“Because in the day, I thought:” Oh, no, we did it. It was garbage. It did not work. “Now, people are still publishing it.

Keira Knightley, Joe Wright on the “Pride and Prejudice” set in 2005. © Focus Movies/Cortesy Everett Collection

The adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic He left in November 2005 and also starred in Donald Sutherland, Tom Hollander, Brenda Blethyn, Judi Dench and Rosamund Pike.

Last year, Macfadyen surprised fans He admitted that Hey “really not” enjoyed playing Mr. Darcy.

“I feel bad saying that,” he said in “CBS Mornings.”

“There were times when I had a good time, but I would like to have enjoyed it more. I wish I was less worried about that.”

Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen in “Pride & Prejudice”. Focus features
Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen. Focus features

He “Succession” Star He explained that Hey “felt a little bad” in the movie, and added: “I’m not a dish enough, or I’m not, you know.”

“But it worked,” Macfadyen said.

Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen in “Pride & Prejudice”. © Focus Movies/Cortesy Everett Collection

Last month, Macfadyen spoke with Mailbox About how romantic drama is still so popular among the public.

“Pride and prejudice have had legs, don’t I know?

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