hear me out: modern day Emma Woodhouse needs to have been like. a child actor or something equally weird. modern Emma's are always popular social butterflies and it doesn't work. book Emma has literally never had peers her own age. she's an undersocialized puppy who's used to being coddled and spoiled by humans and never learned how to play with other dogs bc the only one she's ever met was jane fairfax like 3 times ever.
and yeah you could achieve this vibe with just homeschooling but i like it better when there's a Status to it. she's not the homeschooled kid who grew up lonely and is acutely aware of having missed out on socialization, she's the sitcom baby who grew up on a tv set being told she was living the dream.
how and why mr. woodhouse agreed to this is left as an exercise for the reader.
@anywhoozles - your tags passed peer review! I could also see her as a child chess prodigy.
I love a child actor, though, because it could be a fun new contextualization of why she has surface level accomplishments in different skill sets. She always learns just enough to fake it convincingly for the camera and means to keep going after the shoot until she’s actually very good at gymnastics/playing the piano/race car driving… But it’s boring and frustrating to do stuff you’re not naturally good at until you’re actually good at , and there’s no camera on her so why bother?
This is so correct. A huge part of Emma is isolation
