I'm so excited to see a Northanger Abbey film, and I like the look of the girl they've picked for Catherine, but this comment is mainly for the purpose of sporfling at your icon.

You're right, Liz -- Regency underwear was closer to modern-day bras than the full-length, 16-in-waist craziness often seen.

Mansfield Park is my favourite Austen.
Billie fucking Piper as Fanny?!?

You couldn't pay me to watch that. I am not woman enough to sit calmly and spork it. Sigh.

HER LIPS THROB WITH ANGSTY LUST.

*sobs*

the scriptwriter describes book!Fanny as "a boring prick"

D:

That's pretty much all I've got.

Since the scriptwriter describes book!Fanny as "a boring prick"

Have just checked out that interview... Oh, Maggie Wadey. You slowed down noticeably in your delivery, almost as if your brain was screaming to you "NO! DON'T DO THAT!", but then your lips parted, your mouth moved and you said it anyway. Maybe you meant to say "precocious" and you had a seizure halfway through?

But hey, if she thinks Fanny Price is a "boring prick" she needs to "adapt" MEASURE FOR MEASURE. I bet that in her version Isabella would immediately chuck away her nun's habit and crucifix, apply lipstick and fishnets and be all over Angelo like white on rice.

Oh no, I can actually see it. Help me! HELP!!

Okay, when I read the words "Billie Piper as Fanny Price" I did an actual, true-to-God spit-take. I nearly choked on my rum and Coke. And then I started guzzling it to take the pain away. I like Billie, but NO.

I just bought a light traveling spork. It's obvious I will need it if I watch that.

I was actually cracking up at the bathroom advice portion of the piece. I'm going to have to keep her technique in mind for the next time I'm at a Ren faire. (Hmm -- which reminds me, I think the big local one starts up sometime this month...)

Oh, I can imagine a few ways to deal with cleanup.

And I've got one bodice that ends at the waist but all the others I have are down to midhip. So, yeah, extremely straight posture. (And if I want a new one for Phoenix Rising, I really need to be hunting for one nowish...)

Well, yes, the regency corsets were looser, but they were still very much existent (for posture and boobage both), and I think for anyone living today, it would still be uncomfortable after a while. Waistlines were really high in Britain between about the end of the Napoleonic wasr and 1825, so that would be the most "comfortable" era. Still, though.

I am just delighted that they complain, especially since you tend to read actresses going all swooney over teh pretteh and old fashioned and OMGcute etc.

Also: I don't think I want to see Northanger Abbey</i>; it's one of my favourite books, but don't think I'd enjoy it at all visually.

...Billie Piper? As Fanny Price?!?

There is not enough WTF in the world.

(And your icon makes me LOL, for I got that on DVD this weekend, and I loves it so.)