To celebrate we’re showing some gratitude to all the incredibly talented actresses who have worked with us to bring our characters to life. We cannot sing your praises enough.
And to the ladies who work tirelessly behind the scenes of film productions, we love you to the ends of the earth (this is sneaky cos the earth is round and never ends so really we love you forever).
To anyone who identifies with the female gender - please keep being the intelligent, beautiful, kick ass gals that you are. Thank you for existing, and thank you for your support.
OMG that last drabble was so beyond adorable! How about a sequel where they tell everyone else the news?
They planned on waiting until the end of the first trimester to tell anyone. (Except for Hero, of course – the cat wasalready out of the bag, with that one, since Beatrice had called her whilewaiting in line to buy the pregnancy tests. She never could keep a secret fromHero.) However, they barely made it a month before their cover was totallyblown.
They were at Meg’s house for a New Years Party,and Beatrice had successfully avoided alcohol all night without raisingsuspicion.
“Oh yeah? Well, Bea will do a shot with me,” Meg was saying to Pedro, who’d justmade a comment about them being too old for such things. She turned around,brandishing a bottle of tequila at her. “Won’t you, Beatrice?”
“Um, I’d rather not.”
Meg’s smile immediately dropped.
“Why not?” She demanded. “You’re not drivinghome. And it’s not like you’re pregnant.” She scoffed when she said it, butwhen she saw Bea’s jaw drop and Ben’s eyes widen, she froze.
“Oh my God, areyou pregnant?” She squealed. “Bitch, you’ve been holding out on us!”
“Is that true?” Balthazar asked, looking fromBen to Bea, “Are you?”
“No use denying it now,” Ben said, shrugging atBea.
“We weren’t supposed to tell anyone for anothertwo months,” She explained, “Hero’s the only other person who knew.”
“That’s so exciting,” Ursula smiled, “Congratulations,you guys.”
“I can’t believe the two of you are going to beparents,” Pedro joked, grabbing Beain a hug, “this kid doesn’t stand a chance.”
“Have you thought about baby names? Because fora girl, I highly recommend Margaret,” Meg grinned, “and for a boy, alsoMargaret.”
“And what if they don’t subscribe to genderroles?” Beatrice asked.
“In that case, also Margaret.”
“We’re going to name the baby Floyd, after themost majestic creature I have ever known,” Ben said, placing a hand on Bea’sbelly.
“Under no circumstances is that true,” Bea saiddryly, “Do not listen to him.”
“Oooh, what about Margaret Floyd?” Megsuggested. “I’d even settle for Floyd Margaret.”
“Floyd Margaret does have a nice ring to it,”Ben said thoughtfully. “But it would be a bit of a mouthful. Floyd MargaretDuke-Hobbes. Or Margaret Floyd Hobbes-Duke? Or –”
“Absolutely not,” Beatrice shook her head. “Weare not naming our baby after any of you, and we are especially not naming ourbaby after a toy.”
“How dareyou!” Ben cried, aghast, “Floyd is not a toy.”
“I’m sorry, let me rephrase that. We are notnaming our baby after a lawn decoration.”
“What if we combine all of our names?”Balthazar joked. “Hergretsula Pedrazar Hobbes-Duke.”
“I love it,” Ben said, wiping an imaginary tearfrom his eye.
“I hate you all,” Beatrice declared, as sheheaded for the kitchen, “and I am not taking suggestions for baby names fromany of you.”
“It’s okay,” Ben stage-whispered to them, “youcan submit all potential baby names to me, and I’ll pretend I came up with themand bring it up to Bea.”
“Ican still hear you, dickface,” She called over her shoulder, “and you’ve justlost baby naming privileges!”
Hi there! I'm a big fan of the webseries and I was wondering what was the reasoning/creative decision of not changing the names of the characters to more modern type ones (Charles Bingley being changed into Bing Lee in LBD for example)? cant wait to see the rest of the series :D x
Thank-you!
We had a lot of discussions about whether or not we should change the names, and in the end the majority of them we argued, while unusual, were not exactly unheard of in the modern day.
Many of the names we actually have reasoning for.
Benedick we couldn’t resist keeping because of all the possible dick jokes his name presents. Most of the characters refer to him as “Ben” to keep him modern. We think Ben’s parents are a bit odd themselves and genuinely liked Benedick as a name.
Beatrice is a name still used today, but also this play is famous for the bickering of ‘Beatrice’ and ‘Benedick’, and we didn’t want to change that.
Ursula, again, is a name still used today.
Hero’s name, in our series, has a little story behind it, which you will find out in the near future…
We naturally changed Leonato to Leo early on.
Dogberry and Verges are nicknames. They do have real names too. Anyone want to take a guess?
“Meg” is short for Margaret, and she is also called Meg in the play
Don Pedro was changed to Pedro Donaldson. However, Pedro is a nickname. His real name is Peter. :)
Again, Don John became John Donaldson.
Conrad became, “Cora” which is also reasonably dated and so fit in well with the other names.
The characters call Claudio “Claud” occasionally to bring the name forward somewhat. It felt weird to change his name to something more modern with the main characters name’s left unchanged.
“Borachio” became Robbie’s last name because it was slightly too “out there”.
The only name which really, really stands out in a crowd is Balthazar’s, which is his middle name. It was too good to change, but Balthy’s full name is Stanley Balthazar Jones.
