{"id":414557,"date":"2026-04-01T07:45:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/414557\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T07:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:45:24","slug":"the-other-bennet-sister-trailer-spotlights-elizabeths-sister-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/414557\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Other Bennet Sister&#8217; Trailer Spotlights Elizabeth&#8217;s Sister Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMove over Lizzie Bennet, there\u2019s a new sister that\u2019s set to steal people\u2019s hearts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAlthough Mary Bennet is portrayed as awkward and humorless in Jane Austen\u2019s original 1813 novel, she is the star of an unlikely new <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/britbox\/\" id=\"auto-tag_britbox\" data-tag=\"britbox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BritBox<\/a> series \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-other-bennet-sister\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-other-bennet-sister\" data-tag=\"the-other-bennet-sister\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Other Bennet Sister<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn the first trailer, Mary horrifies her social-climber mother Mrs Bennet by daring to wear glasses to help her see better (\u201cBut she is a woman!\u201d cries Mrs. B, played by \u201cGavin &amp; Stacey\u2019s Ruth Jones) and is encouraged to escape her suffocating family by housekeeper Mrs Hill (Lucy Briers, who played Mary in the BBC\u2019s iconic 1995 adaptation of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/pride-and-prejudice\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pride-and-prejudice\" data-tag=\"pride-and-prejudice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pride and Prejudice<\/a>\u201d with Colin Firth).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe newly sympathetic Mary is played by Ella Bruccoleri (\u201cPaddington in Peru\u201d), who tentatively learns to come out of her shell by learning new skills and meeting new people when she moves to London to stay with family friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe show also stars Richard E. Grant, Indira Varma, Tanya Reynolds, D\u00f3nal Finn, Varada Sethu, Laurie Davidson, Maddie Close, Poppy Gilbert, Molly Wright and Grace Hogg-Robinson. It is produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/bad-wolf\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bad-wolf\" data-tag=\"bad-wolf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Wolf<\/a> (\u201cIndustry\u201d)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIt is executive produced by Robert Schildhouse, Jess O\u2019Riordan and Stephen Nye for BritBox, and Lindsay Salt, BBC drama director, for BBC iPlayer and BBC One. Kate Crowther, Becca Kinder and Jane Tranter exec produce for Bad Wolf, Rebecca Ferguson for the BBC, with Sarah Quintrell and Janice Hadlow also serving as executive producers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe 10-episode series, which is based on the book of the same name by Janice Hadlow, is set to premiere in the U.S. on BritBox. 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