{"id":142939,"date":"2025-05-22T16:26:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/the-other-bennet-sister-casts-ella-bruccoleri-as-mary\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:26:29","slug":"the-other-bennet-sister-casts-ella-bruccoleri-as-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/the-other-bennet-sister-casts-ella-bruccoleri-as-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Other Bennet Sister&#8217; Casts Ella Bruccoleri As Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-other-bennet-sister\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-other-bennet-sister\" data-tag=\"the-other-bennet-sister\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Other Bennet Sister<\/a><\/em> has discovered its Mary. Ella Bruccoleri (<em>Call the Midwife, Bridgerton<\/em>) will lead the forged as Mary Bennet within the ten-episode <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/britbox\/\" id=\"auto-tag_britbox\" data-tag=\"britbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BritBox<\/a> sequence\u00a0<em>The Other Bennet Sister<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOne of Jane Austen\u2019s most unassuming characters, Mary Bennet is the seemingly unremarkable and neglected center sister in Jane Austen\u2019s\u00a0<em>Pride and Prejudice.<\/em> The sequence takes as its premise that \u2013 relating to the Bennet sisters \u2013 whereas we dream of being Lizzy, in actuality most of us are extra like Mary\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBased on Janice Hadlow\u2019s bestselling novel, the sequence follows Mary as she steps out of her sisters\u2019 shadows in the hunt for her personal identification and goal \u2013 discovering herself in the course of an epic love story alongside the way in which. Her journey will see her go away her household house in Meryton for the soirees of Regency London and the peaks and vales of the Lake District, all in the hunt for independence, self-love and reinvention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<em>The Other Bennet Sister <\/em>is produced by Bad Wolf (<em>His Dark Materials, Industry<\/em>) for\u00a0BritBox\u00a0International in a co-production with BBC iPlayer and BBC One.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSarah Quintrell (<em>The Power<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Ellen<\/em>) will write 9 of the ten half-hour episodes, with Maddie Dai (<em>We Were Dangerous<\/em>) writing one episode.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<em>The Other Bennet Siste<\/em>r\u00a0(10\u00d730\u2032) was co-commissioned by Robert Schildhouse, Jess O\u2019Riordan and Stephen Nye on behalf of\u00a0BritBox\u00a0International, and Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, for BBC iPlayer and BBC One. Kate Crowther, Becca Kinder and Jane Tranter govt produce for Bad Wolf, Rebecca Ferguson for the BBC, with Sarah Quintrell and Janice Hadlow additionally serving as govt producers. The sequence has been developed and overseen by Bad Wolf\u2019s Director of Content, Dan McCulloch and Chief Creative Officer, Ryan Rasmussen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Other Bennet Sister has discovered its Mary. Ella Bruccoleri (Call the Midwife, Bridgerton) will lead the forged as Mary Bennet within the ten-episode BritBox sequence\u00a0The Other Bennet Sister. One of Jane Austen\u2019s most unassuming characters, Mary Bennet is the seemingly unremarkable and neglected center sister in Jane Austen\u2019s\u00a0Pride and Prejudice. 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