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What would the Sense and Sensibility characters put in their dating bios?

We asked the cast at the world premiere to imagine their characters looking for love today and the answers were very revealing.

From romantic qualities to potential red flags, the cast give us their funniest take on what Jane Austen’s characters might say about themselves in the modern dating world.

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00:00Biggest red flags. I say sorry too much probably. Green flags. I mean well.
00:07What words on Spyog be on a dating app do you think?
00:13Likes walking. I think he's a big walker. Doesn't have a barouche as he says there.
00:18So yeah, lots of walking dates. I think first dates would be coffees in the park and a long walk.
00:23Wear comfy shoes.
00:25Yeah, yeah. Okay. Gregarious big boy looking for a fun time.
00:33Just like, you know, I love my horse.
00:38Meteorophile. Pluviophile. There's one for clothes as well. I think it's like nephophile. Sounds dodgy but yeah.
00:47She loves clothes. She loves weather. Just something about the weather and like seeking someone to predict weather with.
00:54What is it about complicated love stories that keep on finding you?
00:58Oh, I feel like love in all its forms is always complicated. Like that's what happens when human beings kind
01:03of collide.
01:04And that's also the beauty of it. So yeah. But I'm always interested in love.
01:08It's I think romantic, you know, films and books have always been the thing that I've most loved and you
01:13know to watch and consume. So yeah.
01:14And previously, Ed was being played by quite a famous guy. Did you decide to be a really, did you
01:19have it in your mind that you want to be different? Or what was your kind of mindset on it?
01:22I haven't seen his version. And I chose not to watch his version so that I didn't get too hung
01:27up on either trying to impersonate the best bits or avoid bits for the sake of avoiding them.
01:30So I just thought I'd welcome the fact that I didn't know his version and leave it at that.
01:36So would you say that you are officially a green flag in this film?
01:40Oh, that's a good question. I don't know. Maybe. I hope so. I hope so. I think so.
01:46Why do you think people fancy the red flags before the green flags?
01:50I mean, it's a mystery to me.
01:55I don't know. It doesn't make sense to me. You tell me.
01:58I'm just a nice guy.
02:00No, just stick with the greens. It makes things smoother, I think.
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