Kate Beckinsale means business in first Love & Friendship trailer [Austen juvenilia]

Entertainment Weekly ^ | March 23, 2016 | Joey Nolfi

[C19fan]

Kate Beckinsale is cracking down on her fellow actors in the first full trailer for Oscar nominee Whit Stillman’s Sundance costume comedy, Love & Friendship.

The clip, released Wednesday, introduces Beckinsale as Lady Susan Vernon, a widow who retreats to her in-laws’ estate as a means to escape circulating rumors about her social life. While there, she attempts to find a suitable partner for her daughter, Frederica (Morfydd Clark), and herself. The film, adapted from Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, features a supporting cast that includes Chloë Sevigny as Alicia Johnson, Xavier Samuel as Reginald DeCourcy, and Stephen Fry as Mr. Johnson.

[C19fan]

Good to see Miss Beckinsale going back to her early career. Before chasing paychecks putting on latex outfits as a vampire she was in some period dramas including "Emma", "The Golden Bowl", and "Much Ado About Nothing".

[2nd Amendment]

As far as I am concerned all of Hollywood is a “love and friendship trailer”!

[Made In The USA]

I’m shallow... the latex outfits in the vampire movies is the only reason I know who she is.

[PrincessB]

Whit Stillman putting Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny back together? I remember his heyday in the indie film industry. And he cast these two in one of his films. They had very dry humor and some brilliant lines/actions. I wonder if he will bring that to the table again.

[BitWielder1]

She's pretty but I'm not really into these "Women talking incessantly while wearing period costumes" movies.

[Hotlanta Mike]

She was excellent in “Republicans, Get In My Vagina”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erEq2HtrM84

[T-Bone Texan]

I just saw her last night in a sequel regarding werewolves and vampires.

Spolier: she kills them all.

[T-Bone Texan]

That’s leftist agitprop!