2026 is proving to be a pivotal year for Slow Horses star Jack Lowden. The Apple TV spy series he stars in alongside Gary Oldman just wrapped its sixth season and remains as popular as ever, with seasons 7 and 8 already secured to keep the agents at Slough House coming back for more on a yearly cadence. At the same time, however, he’s in the running to become a very different, even more towering agent than River Cartwright — James Bond. Alongside Josh O’Connor and Callum Turner, he’s one of four finalists reported to be in the running to play 007 in Denis Villeneuve‘s much-anticipated entry in the franchise based on Ian Fleming‘s legendary series of novels. First, however, he has another literary icon to embody.
After a reintroduction to the Dashwood sisters earlier this month with the latest adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, it’s now nearly time to meet Mr. Darcy. Netflix has shared the official trailer for its six-part Pride and Prejudice series adaptation, set to premiere on December 3, and it’s enough to get viewers yearning for more. It provides a gorgeous, sun-drenched look at the newest take on Jane Austen‘s legendary novel, starring Emma Corrin as Elizabeth Bennet alongside Lowden as her proud gentleman love interest. Billed as a faithful rendition of the tale, the series will follow the pair as they grow from adversaries to lovers against the backdrop of 19th-century English society.
The footage teases the “chaotic” life of the five Bennet sisters and their “very animated mother (Olivia Colman)” as they navigate love and societal expectations when wealthy bachelors come calling. At the center are Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, who initially trade barbs with one another and clash as the latter’s friend, Mr. Bingley (Daryl McCormack), gets her sister Jane’s (Freya Mavor) attention. However, circumstances and unexpected encounters ultimately see them gravitate towards each other as Elizabeth wrestles with her own feelings and the nature of love. A lot can change in a year, and how their legendary romance blossoms over time is lightly teased throughout this first proper look, which also provides a boisterous portrait of the Bennets’ sisterhood as they go from “playing at being ladies” to becoming them.
Four love stories, four completely different ideas of what it means to
be somebody’s person. This is the one that matches how you actually fall, and what it would ask of
you.
You do not fall for strangers. You fall for the person you have
already been talking to for years, which is the slowest and by some distance the most
durable way anybody has found to do this.
- When Harry Met Sally made the case that the best romance is an argument you enjoy,
conducted over a decade, by two people refusing to admit what is happening. - You want to be known rather than swept away. Somebody who remembers your worst story is
doing better work than anybody arriving with flowers. - The film is unusually honest about timing. These two are wrong for each other repeatedly
until suddenly they are not, and neither of them engineered it. - You would still be talking about everything at eighty. That is the entire promise.
You want a partner, not an audience. Somebody who wants their own
life as badly as you want yours, and who would never ask you to be smaller to make the
relationship easier.
- This is the rare romance where both people have a real career and the film takes both of
them equally seriously. - You would rather be pushed than protected. The right person for you is also a bit of a
rival, and that never entirely goes away. - It understands the actual problem in ambitious relationships. Not whether you love each
other, but whose turn it is this year. - You would still be competing at forty. That is how you would know it was working.
The intensity was never the problem. The secrecy is. You are
drawn to a love that lives entirely in private, and to the particular ache of wanting
somebody you are not supposed to want.
- Heated Rivalry runs on the oldest engine in romance: two people on opposite sides,
meeting in secret, getting far more attached than either of them planned. - You keep your private life genuinely private, and something in you finds hidden things
more real than public ones. - The tension is not only between the two of them. It is between what they have and what
it would cost either one to say it out loud. - Years of this, and the whole story is really about whether either of them will finally
stop hiding.
You do not do this cautiously. When it happens for you it is
immediate and total and it rearranges everything, and you would not accept a smaller version
of it.
- Titanic gave us the biggest romance in film history and then made it last about five
days, which is precisely the point of it. - You measure love by intensity rather than duration. A few days of the real thing beats
decades of something merely comfortable. - The film is not only about the romance. It is about a woman who went on to live an
enormous life afterwards because of it. - You would still be telling this story at a hundred years old, and telling it exactly the
same way.
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Everything I Know About Love‘s Dolly Alderton penned the series based on Austen’s novel, with another Netflix romance favorite in Heartstopper‘s Euros Lyn directing each episode. Hopey Parish, Hollie Avery, and Rhea Norwood play the other Bennet sisters alongside Jamie Demetriou as Mr. Collins, Louis Partridge as Mr. Wickham, and Fiona Shaw as Lady Catherine de Bourgh, among others. In a quote shared with Tudum, Alderton expressed how she felt Pride and Prejudice remains a story worth experiencing in 2026 because of how universal the emotions of Lizzie and everyone else in her life are, especially now.
“Pride and Prejudice is such a timeless story because of the emotions in the book; they are as pertinent now as they were in 1812. Embarrassment of your family, fear that you’re going to get left behind, fear that the world is not going to be a safe place for your children as it was for you, mortification that you judged someone incorrectly or that you had been misjudged. We go to that book to see our hearts reflected in it.”
“Pride and Prejudice is such a timeless story because of the emotions in the book; they are as pertinent now as they were in 1812. Embarrassment of your family, fear that you’re going to get left behind, fear that the world is not going to be a safe place for your children as it was for you, mortification that you judged someone incorrectly or that you had been misjudged. We go to that book to see our hearts reflected in it.”
Pride and Prejudice arrives on Netflix on December 3. Check out the trailer in the player above.
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