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Ang Lee interview: 'When I saw Devon, I knew Sense & Sensibility belonged to me'


Director Ang Lee is to receive a Fellowship from Bafta 
Credit: AP Photo/Chris Pizzello
Formative moments in the lives of great artists can occur almost anywhere. Ang Lee’s came on the train from London to Plymouth. It was a wet winter day in early 1994, and the Taiwanese filmmaker was steeling himself for Sense and Sensibility, an adaptation of the Jane Austen novel and his first entirely English-language project. At that point, the film was to be shot in Ireland for tax reasons – but Lee, then 39, felt he owed it to Austen to see firsthand the Devonshire countryside in which her story was set, “just so I knew what I’d be imitating,” he chuckles. ....

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