Trivia: Movie - Sense and Sensibility - 1995

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Director Ang Lee had not read Jane Austen's novel when Columbia first sent him Emma Thompson's script.

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Emma Thompson's first draft of the screenplay consisted of 350 hand-written pages. The final draft was a culmination of that and 13 other drafts which were written over four and a half years.

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During filming, the Jane Austen Society telephoned co-producer James Schamus to complain about the casting of Hugh Grant claiming that he was too good-looking to play Edward Ferrars.