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FUSHION MAGAZINE: Your character is obsessed with all things Jane Austen, do you have any
weird or unusual obsessions that you're willing to admit to?
KERI RUSSELL: Not like that. I mean she's pretty into that. I definitely loved Nancy
Drew books when I was a kid, the teenage detective, but I didn't become a teenage detective because
of my love of those books.
FUSHION MAGAZINE: I think it's safe to say that this film is a chick flick, how do you
think you can get guys to see this film?
KERI RUSSELL: Because if you take a girl to this theater and you take her on a date you
make it a good makeout afterwards. And you get to see Jennifer Coolidge's *** in every
scene.
BRET McKENZIE: Tell, them it's a Marvel comic adaptation.
FUSHION MAGAZINE: Which one?
BRET McKENZIE: Jane Austen superhero.
FUSHION MAGAZINE: You're saying no.
JANE SEYMOUR: No, that's what they think it is. They've had screenings for women only
and men have been in the audience and the men have been liking it as much if not more
than the women. And the dead giveaway was my family who always tell me the truth. And
last night, they said "Mom, this is the best you've done since Wedding Crashers." They
were just hysterical. And I had men there from 33 to 17 and everything in between. And
my 17 year-old said, "Oh my friends are going to love this. This is so cool. This is hysterical."
So, I think the marketing people have underestimated this. This is not a chick flick.
FUSHION MAGAZINE: So what do you think you can do to get the guys in there.
JANE SEYMOUR: I think word of mouth.
FUSHION MAGAZINE: At the end of the film, Mr. Nobley says, "You couldn't even get a
part in THE HOBBIT." Is that a line that you had thrown in there because of your role in
the film?
BRET McKENZIE: No, that was a JJ.
JJ FEILD: I think I made that up.
BRET McKENZIE: That was a great line.
FUSHION MAGAZINE: So, I have to ask, what's you favorite Jane Austen novel or movie adaptation?
JANE SEYMOUR: Pride and Prejudice. Colin.
GEORGIA KING: Well, I actually really loved JJ in Northanger Abbey. He was so delightful.
I actually worked with him in a period drama, seven or eight years ago. It was really fun
to watch him in that and to work with him again.
KERI RUSSELL: I'm just going to be poppy and cheesey and just say that I like the most
recent the Joe Wright the Keira Knightley one. It was so beautiful Pride and Prejudice
and so sweeping and romantic.
JJ FEILD: You know, growing up in England, they've done every novel fantastically, Pride
and Prejudice, is a classic. Colin Firth is always going to be the iconic one. He's amazing
in Sense and Sensibility. They're all great.
BRET McKENZIE: My favorite Jane Austen production is Jane Austen Powers, which is a little know
period detective film. Jane Austen being sort of a detective spy character.
FUSHION MAGAZINE: In addition to being a fine actress, you're an accomplished painter with
your own art gallery and your own jewelry line Open Hearts. Were there any pieces from
your jewelry line of gallery that were featured in this film?
JANE SEYMOUR: No, none of that. But my dolls were from my collection from years ago. I
had porcelain dolls which I painted and I handed them to the art director and he dressed
them all up in regency gowns.
FUSHION MAGAZINE: If there was such a place as Austenland, is that somewhere you'd like
to visit?
JANE SEYMOUR: I get to do this in real life, every time I get to play a role and basically
have that experience. I'm surrounded by men, well, when I was younger anyway, to be the
leading man, to be romantic with me and I would be in a heaving *** outfit of some
sort and they'd be looking rather dapper. So, I've actually had that experience for
many, many, many years. Like forty plus years. But I think for anyone that doesn't get to
do that. I think it would be really fun because I think there is something magical about wearing
those costumes and being with men who are dressed that way. Everyone kind of slows down
and I think there's definitely a romantic element to it.
GEORGIA KING: I think that if you are an actor, one of the best things about acting is that
you constantly change and go into different worlds and different eras and different situations.
You really can't express how fun it is to just be able to do that. If you haven't had
that opportunity, I think Austenland would be a really good time.
JJ FEILD: If Jennifer Coolidge was in Austenland, I would go visit. Jennifer Coolidge is the
greatest attraction to any man going to see it and so is Keri, you know what, why would
a man not want to go see Keri Russell in a film?
BRET McKENZIE: I don't think I would go to Austenland.
KERI RUSSELL: I think it would be pretty fun with friends. And wine at every meal, which
there were in those days. There were multiple glasses of wine at every fancy meal and dressing
up in those dresses and add massages to the mix and I think you got a good sell.