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‘The Other Bennet Sister’ star Ella Bruccoleri chats on the NTAs red carpet about taking center stage as Mary Bennet in the BBC's new Regency drama, reflecting on the "yearning and big emotions" that make the character so relatable today. #NTAs #NTAs2026 #EllaBruccoleri #TheOtherBennetSister #JaneAusten

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00:00They do subtext so well. So there's like so much bubbling under the surface.
00:06People couldn't really be honest and open about their feelings and we sort of live in this like world of
00:10oversharing now.
00:11Like everyone's just putting everything out on social media and it's kind of like it's very evocative to go back
00:16to a time where you couldn't do that.
00:18And so you, it's wonderful to play because there's like so much going on that you can't vocalise.
00:25And I think people are drawn to that. It's yearning. It's like, you know, it's big, it's big emotions without
00:30being able to like express them.
00:32And people always like now bring back the yearning.
00:34Yes, yearning's making a comeback. Yeah, it's, yeah.

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