{"id":13403,"date":"2025-07-21T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13403\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:28:08","slug":"sense-sensibility-adds-caitriona-balfe-fiona-shaw-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13403\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Sense & Sensibility’ Adds Caitriona Balfe, Fiona Shaw, More"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFocus Features<\/a> and Working Title Films new redo of Jane Austen\u2019s Sense\u00a0and Sensibility has added Caitr\u00edona Balfe, Frank Dillane, George MacKay, Herbert Nordrum, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, and Fiona Shaw to the cast opposite Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esme Creed-Miles, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Production has commenced in the U.K. with direction by BAFTA Award nominee Georgia Oakley and an adaptation by Diana Reid. <\/p>\n

\n\tTim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films will produce alongside India Flint of November Pictures and Jo Wallett.<\/p>\n

\n\tBalfe is a 5x Golden Globes nominee, once for her supporting role in Best Picture nominee\u00a0Belfast\u00a0and four times consecutively for her lead role in Starz\u2019 long-running hit\u00a0Outlander. The actress is also a BAFTA nominee for Belfast and a three-time Critics Choice nominee on behalf of\u00a0Outlander. Balfe\u2019s feature credits include Ford v Ferrari,\u00a0The Amateur,\u00a0Now You See Me, and\u00a0Super 8, and she will co-star alongside Willem Dafoe and Tom Hiddleston in\u00a0Tenzing\u00a0and is the female lead opposite Orlando Bloom in the upcoming Paramount film The Cut.<\/p>\n

\n\tDillane played Tom Riddle in\u00a0Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. At this year\u2019s Cannes Film Festival, he won the Best Actor prize in the Un Certain Regard section for his lead role in Harris Dickinson\u2019s\u00a0Urchin,\u00a0which will hit theaters this autumn. He also starred in several seasons of AMC\u2019s\u00a0Fear the Walking Dead\u00a0and Netflix\u2019s Emmy-nominated\u00a0Sense8. <\/p>\n

\n\tMacKay is a British actor best known for his lead role in the 2019 war film\u00a01917. MacKay has also starred in films such as\u00a0Pride,\u00a0Captain Fantastic, and\u00a0True History of the Kelly Gang. <\/p>\n

\n\tNorwegian actor Nordrum starred alongside Renate Reinsve in Joachim Trier\u2019s Oscar-nominated The Worst Person in the World, and alongside Julia Garner in The Royal Hotel. He recently starred in Ernst De Geer\u2019s The Hypnosis and won multiple awards for his performance. Additional credits include the acclaimed Norwegian historical drama The King\u2019s Choice and four seasons of Young and Promising. <\/p>\n

\n\tBreathnach will appear in Chlo\u00e9 Zhao\u2019s Hamnet and Ric Roman Waugh\u2019s untitled Jason Statham thriller. She currently stars in the ongoing So Awkward Academy and appeared in the BBC\u2019s BAFTA-nominated The Capture. <\/p>\n

\n\tShaw is a BAFTA winner and three-time Emmy nominee. Her film credits include Hot Milk, Echo Valley, IF and several installments in the Harry Potter franchise, in which she played Aunt Petunia. She is set to star alongside Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike in Netflix\u2019s upcoming Ladies First. On the small screen, she earned Emmy nominations for her roles in Killing Eve and Fleabag. She also starred in True Detective, Bad Sisters, and Andor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Focus Features and Working Title Films new redo of Jane Austen\u2019s Sense\u00a0and Sensibility has added Caitr\u00edona Balfe, Frank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,12445,337,12446],"class_list":["post-13403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-focus-features","tag-movies","tag-sense-and-sensibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}