Janney’s Jane Austen scholar
Caught Allison Janney on THE TALK, and could not believe my ears when I heard her say that she had a role – against Hugh Grant (Edward Farrars, Sense and Sensibility) – playing a professor whose main interest is JANE AUSTEN!
Or, as the Boston Herald calls her in a review of the film, “a prissy, uptight and emasculating Jane Austen scholar” (Hmmm….; Janney herself uses the pleasanter phrase Austen aficionado), meeting up with Grant who’s come to teach in UPSTATE New York (ie, not far from me).
Notable Quotes:
- “You don’t LIKE Jane Austen?”
- “Teaching is an absurd profession…”
LINKS:
- Janney on THE TALK (13 Feb 2015) [approx 2:35 into the interview]
- Official (UK) Trailer “The Rewrite”
