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Austen's Dashwood sisters hit Leicester Square
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles held hands on the red carpet as a new Sense and Sensibility landed in London.
In brief
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles held hands on the red carpet as a new Sense and Sensibility landed in London. A fresh Sense and Sensibility, directed by Georgia Oakley and written by Diana Reid, opens in the UK on September 25, with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as Elinor and Marianne. Originally…
Sisters lead the carpet
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles fronted arrivals at the Sense and Sensibility premiere in Leicester Square on Tuesday evening.
Hand in hand
The two actresses posed together clasping hands, playing up the on-screen bond between the Dashwood sisters.
Daisy plays Elinor
Edgar-Jones, 28, takes the eldest sister, Elinor Dashwood, and brought a vampy edge to period dressing for the night.
The plunging satin gown
She wore a plunging satin gown with bow detailing on the straps and a slit up the leg, finished with towering heels.
Undone hair, pendant choker
Her brunette hair went half up, half down in a deliberately undone style, accessorised with a pendant choker.
Esmé goes black and white
Creed-Miles, who plays younger sister Marianne, chose a statement full white skirt with a cropped black blazer.
A second outfit
Later in the evening she switched into a sheer striped shirt with black trousers, a sharper look than the carpet gown.
Reunited since 2018
The pair first worked together as teenagers on the 2018 film Pond Life, so the premiere doubled as a reunion.
Fiona Shaw lies down
The Killing Eve actress skipped convention, dropping to the ground beside the floral display on a patch of astroturf.
Stopping to smell them
Shaw made a point of touching and smelling the flowers, in a blue co-ord cinched with a belt and black slingback heels.
Lucy Steele arrives
Ceara Coveney, cast as Lucy Steele in the 2026 adaptation, wore a brown lace dress with sheer panelling.
The suitors turn up
George MacKay, playing one of the sisters' potential suitors, went for a butter yellow blazer, white shirt and black trousers.
Co-stars pose together
Edgar-Jones and MacKay were all smiles side by side on the carpet, a preview of the courtship at the centre of the film.
More guests in Leicester Square
Kate Nash wore a black square-neck dress, Frank Dillane a long grey jacket, Russell Tovey a blue shirt, and Chloe Pirrie a corset gown with a sheer skirt.
The story itself
Austen's debut novel follows two sisters navigating love and heartbreak under the strict social rules of 18th-century Britain.
“a timeless story of two sisters navigating love and heartbreak”
Norland Park to Devon
After their father's death, the Dashwood sisters and their mother must leave the Sussex family estate for a modest cottage in distant Devon.
Head versus heart
Elinor courts with her practical head while Marianne follows her passionate heart, and the two approaches sit like chalk and cheese.
The wider ensemble
Caitríona Balfe joins Fiona Shaw in support, with Frank Dillane and Herbert Nordrum among the suitors and Bodhi Rae Breathnach as youngest sister Margaret.
Behind the camera
Georgia Oakley directs from a script by Diana Reid, which keeps Austen's wit and peppers in quotes lifted straight from the novel.
Out September 25
The film comes from the producers of 2005's Pride & Prejudice and 2020's Emma, and reaches UK cinemas on September 25.
The takeaway
A fresh Sense and Sensibility, directed by Georgia Oakley and written by Diana Reid, opens in the UK on September 25, with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as Elinor and Marianne.
