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“I relate so strongly to the book and I relate so strongly to Anne that I’m constantly drawing connections between my life and Anne’s. “I’ve loved Jane Austen my whole life, and ‘Persuasion’ has always been my favorite novel,” Winslow says. Instead, the writers wanted to bring a contemporary tone into a classic tale. Frederick Wentworth, Anne bemoans that they are now “worse than exes, we’re friends.” Austen, of course, didn’t write that in her 1817 novel, but the sentiment resonates with the sense of longing the English author evoked.įor screenwriters Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow, who collaborated on the adaptation, the goal wasn’t to alter Austen’s intention or story. As she muses on her relationship with former flame Capt. In “Persuasion,” a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s final novel made for Netflix, protagonist Anne Elliot speaks directly to the camera, addressing the audience like an old friend.
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