Jonny Lee Miller is an “absurdly young Mr. Knightley”?
He’s 36, people. And Mr. Knightley, according to Miss Austen, is “a sensible man of about seven or eight-and-thirty.” Further, Dude’s a very youthful 37 or 38:
“His tall, firm, upright figure, among the bulky forms and stooping shoulders of the elderly men, was such as Emma felt must draw everybody’s eyes; and, excepting her own partner [Frank], there was not one among the whole row of young men who could be compared with him. He moved a few steps nearer, and those few steps were enough to prove how gentlemanlike a manner, with what natural grace, he must have danced, would he but take the trouble.” (At the Crown In Ball.)
Geez.