Colin Firth’s Pride and Prejudice moist shirt fetches tidy sum
A London public sale has bought an outfit worn by actor Colin Firth in a tv model of English novelist Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” for greater than twice its anticipated worth.
The ensemble — together with Firth’s well-known swim-soaked shirt — fetched £20,000 (about €23,400; $25,450) within the public sale, plus a £5,000 purchaser’s premium. The public sale additionally featured clothes worn by quite a few different celebrities for tv and cinema.
Why is the costume so well-known?
The sequence sees Firth’s character Mr. Darcy swimming in a pond earlier than rising and encountering his future real love, Elizabeth Bennet. It was as soon as voted probably the most memorable tv second in UK tv historical past.
The section depicts an ungainly conversational second for the pair, neither wishing to attract consideration to Darcy’s drenched and raveled look.
Script-writer Andrew Davies mentioned the scene — not a part of Austin’s unique novel — was by no means supposed to spotlight a sexual connection between Elizabeth and Darcy. Instead, he mentioned, it was supposed as “an amusing moment in which Darcy tries to maintain his dignity while improperly dressed and sopping wet.”
The romantic soaking was later referenced within the films “Love, Actually” and “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.” More not too long ago, it was reimagined within the Netflix collection “Bridgerton.”
Firth’s boots, moleskin breeches and a velvet waistcoat had been included in the public sale lot, which had a pre-sale estimate of £10,000.
Why had been the objects on sale?
Proceeds from the sale will go to the Bright Foundation, an arts training charity.
Other objects that went on sale in the identical public sale at London’s Kerry Taylor Auctions embody a Nineteen Fifties Christian Dior taffeta ball robe worn by Madonna within the 1996 film “Evita,” which bought for £40,000.
Johnny Depp’s Ichabod Crane costume from the movie “Sleepy Hollow” raised £24,000.
The apparel was supplied by Academy Award-winning stage clothes designer John Bright by his costume home, Cosprop.
rc/ab (dpa, AP)
