As much as to love is to burn, to star in a Jane Austin adaptation is to leave the full beat at home.
That was the case for Daisy Edgar-Jones on Sense and Sensibility as director Georgia Oakley and hair and makeup designer Nadia Stacey laid down a bare-faced rule on set: no makeup for Jones and costar Esmé Creed-Miles, with the actual makeup for the movie kept to a minimum, too.
“Nadia was like—and Georgia too—they were like, ‘We’re having no makeup in this film,’ to Esme and I. We were like, ‘Not even ChapStick?’ She was like, ‘Nothing,’” Edgar-Jones recalled on the Oct. 15 episode of Vogue’s The Run-Through podcast. “Then Esme and I would sneak a little bit of ChapStick onto set and Georgia would be like, ‘Take it off. I see. I can see.’”
For the 28-year-old, it marked the first time she wore no makeup on screen, aside from a little bit of “sun cream and some added freckles,” as her and Creed-Miles’ characters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood spent a lot of time in the sun.