How ‘The Other Bennet Sister’ Star Ella Bruccoleri Learned to Love Jane Austen: ‘It Actually Feels Like She’s on My Side’

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The BBC’s most-watched show since May last year, “The Other Bennet Sister” has also proven to be a sizeable hit on BritBox in the U.S. And the success of the show has taken its star Ella Bruccoleri by surprise, she tells Variety at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.

“Everyone connected to it was saying ‘I think this is going to be received really well’ but I always set my bar really low because it depends on timing and all sorts of other factors. So I thought ‘I don’t really mind about the reach of it, I just want people to feel seen by it.'”

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