#mr. collins

[valaena]

Close his eyes and tilt his head while picturing seducing Elizabeth Bennet? Can’t you be more adorable, Bertie??? 😫💗

Bertie Carvel as Mr. Collins in Audible Pride and Prejudice (2025) (source)

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[hotvintagepoll]

this is a poll for a movie that doesn't exist.

it is vintage times. the old hollywood studios, captivated by the electorate's previous casting of cinema classic dracula, have decided to celebrate jane austen's 250th by releasing an all-new vintage motion picture extravaganza based on her celebrated romance pride and prejudice. whoever is cast will impact the picture's tone and genre, so they are counting on you, the electorate, to deliver cinema magic.

you are the casting director for this star-studded epic. choose your players wisely.

Who is Mr. Collins?

Laurence Criner

Gene Wilder

Victor Spinetti

Terry-Thomas

Jack Soo

Donald Meek

Fats Waller

Peter Lorre

Dwight Frye

Edward Everett Horton

Bhanu Bandopadhyay

Eric Blore

Voting ended onJul 11, 2025

This is one of many polls that will gradually drop over the next few weeks. You can find all the P&P polls under #pride and prejudice casting. If you need a reminder on who's who, here's the Wikipedia page listing the cast of characters. Thank you to everyone who suggested actresses for this poll!

previously cast:

Georgiana Darcy—Mary Pickford

Colonel Fitzwilliam—Albert Finney

Caroline Bingley—vote here

Aunt Gardiner—vote here

Uncle Gardiner—vote here

Charlotte Lucas—vote here

Mary Bennet—vote here

Kitty Bennet—vote here

Lydia Bennet—vote here

[bethanydelleman]

Saw your post about the problem with Mr Collins in adaptations (read a bunch of them after your latest on Austen's knack for character assassination) and I heartily agree! My ideal Collins would be someone like a young Stephen Fry or a young Matt Berry--an actor who can play pompous, play ridiculous, and absolutely play not suitable for Lizzy, but who doesn't feel like the rest of the world is insane for not seeing that he's made of red flags. (Fry would have been PERFECTION in the 1995 series, again slightly older but devastatingly handsome and elegant....and able to spoil all of that the moment he opens his mouth. Check out the Engagement Ring sketch from A Bit of Fry and Laurie if you haven't seen it.)

Also YES my ideal Mrs Bennet would be someone like Penelope Keith or Miranda Richardson--stylish, gorgeous, FULLY able to play silly and ridiculous but not so much that she flies into unsympathetic. We love Margo Leadbetter and Queenie and that is the energy Mrs Bennet needs.

Adaptations are so interesting to me because of how often they are based more upon each other than upon going back to the source material (like Jonathan Harker NEVER being as heroic as he is in the book in ANY adaptation of Dracula because they all are based on the 1931 version in which he does almost nothing but say "but surely, vampires are a fairy tale!" while his possessed fiancee talks to a bat in front of him), and Mr Collins and Mrs Bennet being presented the way they are is such a great example of that.

Thank you! This question references this article:

The Problem with Portrayals of Mr. Collins

Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society… Having now a good hou

There are definitely trends that seem to run through Austen adaptations. Margaret Dashwood is many people's favourite character based on the 1995 movie and I've heard people get angry when she's left out. The girl is hardly in the book! Elizabeth's line about only marrying for "deepest love," something that Book!Elizabeth Bennet would never say, was in both the 1995 and then the 2005 adaptations, leading to many people mistaking it for canon.

I think Mr. Collins' portrayals play into certain tropes about both clergymen and marrying relatives, so I'm not sure if it came from the adaptations or prior things, but he's never really done correctly. Not even in the earliest adaptations.

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

possibly one of my FAV scenes from my FAV thing ever-

Elizabeth Bennet almost commits a murder, Jane just barely prevents a murder, Mary has the MOST toxic crush on her wet cat blorbo Mr. Collins, and Kitty... literally... ran off rather than sit with him. Beautiful.

<3 i love this miniseries <3

[jomiddlemarch]

Five Times Aristocrats Shared a Bed and One Time They Didn’t*

(*where “they” have delusions of grandeur)

1.

“If it is your preference, I shall give you your privacy and I will seek your permission before entering your chamber,” Fitzwilliam said stiffly, reminding Elizabeth so much of the aloof stranger she’d first seen at a Meryton dance that she could not keep from laughing.

“Madam?” he asked, taken aback.

She had learnt him well enough to wait to speak until she’d laid her hand upon his chest, where he could not fail to see his ring upon her finger.

“I’ve never slept alone in my life and I shouldn’t like to start now,” she said. “I warn you and Jane will confirm it, my feet get cold but I despise bed-socks.”

“It will be my pleasure to keep you warm, Elizabeth,” he said.

2.

“I’ve made sure your suite was entirely redecorated, all in the loveliest shades of green and indigo, and I spoke with your housekeeper, to ensure your mattress here is just as you like it,” Emma said.

George raised an eyebrow in inquiry. It was quite the most devilish expression and she wished she were capable of matching it.

“You have already undertaken so much, leaving Donwell Abbey and coming to live at Hartfield, you deserved to have a place of your own, a retreat when you cannot bear another second of Papa’s exhortations about the risk of cold lettuce on a young man’s chest or my silly prattling,” she explained.

“Mrs. Knightley, what I cannot bear is to be apart from you at night,” he said, moving closer as he spoke. “To wake without you in my arms.”

“Well, you needn’t,” she said, while she could. 

She was not sorry when she couldn’t. Not one bit.

3.

“If you’d like, my dear, I’ll sleep in my dressing room,” Charles said. “I know aristocrats don’t share a bed. My parents did but of course, Father was in trade, for all that Caroline wants to pretend we’re the obscure cadet branch of some viscount from the North. I asked Darcy and he turned rather puce but he did say it was so—”

“We’re not aristocrats, Charles,” Jane replied.

“You’re a gentleman’s daughter, Jane, a lady to the very tips of your toes,” Charles replied.

“Whoever the Bingleys are, we’re only Charles and Jane here,” she said. “And whatever you consider the tips of my toes, I’m your wife first and last.”

“You’ll send me to my dressing room if I snore, though. You must promise me that, you’re too good a creature to complain about anything but I shan’t have you exhausted,” Charles said.

“If you snore, I promise, I’ll wake you,” Jane said.

She’d learnt quite quickly how her husband took his tea and how to lie to him.

4.

“When we choose an estate, I’ll make sure there’s a separate chamber for you, sweetheart,” Frederick said softly. “You’ll want that after being crammed into this crowded little cabin—”

“It’s snug,” Anne said, turning slightly so she might see his dear face better. The moonlight from the porthole took him from the epitome of a British sea-captain and changed him into a figure of romance or myth, a god all silver and shadow. “I shouldn’t like anything better than this, this perfect refuge that’s ours alone and the sound of the waves.”

“We’ll choose a place by the sea,” he said. “A house with a view, plenty of space, light and airy.”

“But I don’t care to sleep apart, no matter had bad Ton it is,” she said. “We were apart long enough.”

5.

“Don’t say we must be stuffy aristocrats about it and sleep in separate rooms and you’re to knock at my door and wait there in a banyan and slippers for me to bid you enter,” Marianne said in a rush, exhilarated by the fresh air, the vista before them, Colonel Brandon’s arm around her waist. He did not yet believe she was steady on her feet after her illness and she could not convince him otherwise, had she been inclined to try. “There is nothing romantic about that, nothing ravishing—”

“There will be ravishing, my dear,” he replied. “In one room, one bed, if that’s what you want.”

“I quite fancy the contrast, how splendidly massive Delaford is and then to imagine the two of us tucked away, almost in a garret,” she said dreamily.

“I draw the line at a garret,” he said. “And I do wear a banyan and slippers when it’s chilly.”

6.

“Some would say we’ve pretentions beyond our station, Mrs. Collins, yes, some would say that very thing, but for someone, if you will, attached to a lady as elevated as Lady Catherine de Bourgh, for a clergyman with refined taste and a sense of elegant delicacy derived from a close association with an aristocrat like her Ladyship, well, it hardly seems the argument that we’re aping our betters should be given the least credence,” Mr. Collins declared, speaking much as he would giving one of his sermons. Anything to do with Lady Catherine called for that tone of voice, a fact Charlotte had gleaned after three days in the vicarage.

“As you say, Mr. Collins,” Charlotte replied.

“It’s a squeeze, I’m quite aware of that, but I had the box room fitted out and the alcove in the larger room can serve as a dressing room, if it comes to it,” he said.

“I’ve no complaints, sir,” Charlotte replied. 

Indeed, her husband’s announcement that they would have separate sleeping chambers had made her nearly as happy as his offer to wed and might very well be her salvation.

Posted late for Janeuary 2025 @janeuary-month Day 21, prompt: aristocracy

[janeaustenpolls]

If you had to be stuck in an elevator for 3 hours with one of these characters, who would you pick?

Mr. Collins

Mrs. (Augusta) Elton

John Thorpe

Miss (Anne) Steele

Sir Walter Elliot

Mrs. Norris

Voting ended onSep 23, 2025