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" 1. Producer Lindsay Doran asked Emma Thompson to write the script after seeing a sketch Emma had written about a woman who&amp;#039;d never seen a penis before and described her boyfriend as having an &amp;#039;animal between his legs&amp;#039;. 2. It then took Emma Thompson five years to adapt the screen play from the original novel,\u00A0so she REALLY deserved that Oscar. 3. During the writing process, Emma slept with Jane Austen&amp;#039;s letters next to her bed to remind her how funny the author had been. 4. These letters are where a lot of the humour in the film comes from - the novel version of Sense &amp;amp;amp; Sensibility isn&amp;#039;t particularly funny.  5. Director Ang Lee was chosen specifically because he wasn&amp;#039;t in any way English so could &amp;#039;step outside&amp;#039; modern English conventions and make the film as historically accurate as possible. 6. On the first day of filming, Ang Lee gave Kate Winslet a note that said &amp;quot;don&amp;#039;t worry, you&amp;#039;ll get better&amp;quot;. 7. Emma Thompson met her current husband, Greg Wise, on the set, but was married to someone else at the time. She claims keeping their relationship a secret was the most challenging thing about making the film. 8. The cast attended &amp;#039;movement classes&amp;#039; to help them stand, sit and bow authentically because, in Emma&amp;#039;s words &amp;quot;hips hadn&amp;#039;t been invented, then&amp;quot;. Alan Rickman said &amp;quot;you don&amp;#039;t just bow, you give yourself to the other person&amp;quot;.  9. Emma wrote the character of Edward Ferrars specifically with Hugh Grant in mind, but before he was &amp;quot;more famous than God&amp;quot;. He took the part as a favour, because he is nice like that (turned out well, though). 10. During filming, Emma and Kate Winslet wandered around the town of Salisbury, where some of the film is set, in their empire line dresses and bonnets. No one noticed. 25 THINGS YOU DIDN&amp;#039;T KNOW ABOUT MEAN GIRLS 10 WAYS LOVE ACTUALLY WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF IT WAS WRITTEN TODAY "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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