Elizabeth Bennet's younger, often overlooked sister, played by former Call the Midwife star Ella Bruccoleri, married a man who she genuinely loved, and who genuinely loved her – especially the parts everyone else sneered at and mocked.
"They are completely in love still, the soppy pair! Nothing has changed in that regard," she said of Mary and Tom (Donal Finn), who have been married for a year when we're reunited with them. "But you see Mary sort of suddenly go, 'Oh, I have to be a wife now, and I don't really know how to do that.'
And so begins her obsession with food preservation.
Bruccoleri described it as Mary entering "tradwife territory", adding: "It's almost like a parody of that. It's funny to watch someone playing that role, which a lot of that concept feels like it's doing. It's performative, in a way."
"I think the thing that we were interested in exploring was marriage as an assault on a woman's identity. And how you can be very much in love with the person that you're with, and have that kind of perfect fairy tale, but ultimately, you're expected to become this thing that might not naturally fit with who you are very well at all," Bruccoleri expanded.
"And so it's her working at how she can live with Tom and be in love with Tom, but do it in her own way. There must be a way of doing marriage and motherhood that doesn't feel like you have to fit into this mould that's so clearly laid out for you."
View Green Video on the source website"It's more ingrained in us that we're the ones that have to do that," she said. "It all sits with the women. And I guess we're more aware of that now, but it's still the case."
"But just as Mary begins this new chapter, an unexpected visitor from her past arrives at her door in need of her help."
Other returning cast members include Poppy Gilbert (Chloe) as Lizzie Darcy, Maddie Close (Chasing Red) as Jane Bingley, Grace Hogg-Robinson (COBRA) as Lydia Wickham and Molly Wright (The A Word) as Kitty Buncock.
Nerys Amber Stocks (Out There) has also joined the cast as Lucy, the Haywards' housekeeper.
"It hasn't been left on a cliffhanger, and we didn't do that with the series either," she confirmed. "But there's more to explore, definitely. I think it's well known we won't be doing another series because they're going off and exploring other things – [the BBC has teased a follow-up based on another Jane Austen novel]. But there's a world in which we might come back for these kind of small chunks.
"That might happen, it might not happen. It's being floated but equally, it could end there. And I think it's nice to just feel like each one kind of wraps itself up."
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"It feels kind of insane, it hasn't quite sunk in," said the actor, who didn't think she was "cool enough" to receive it.
The moment feels especially significant given how anxious Bruccoleri was about leaving Call the Midwife after four years on the show.
"The reason I got into this industry was because I love the variety; my brain tends to atrophy a little bit from just doing the same thing day in, day out," she explained. "But as soon as I'd done it, there was no work lined up and I was just like, 'Oh, I've made a bad decision.'
The full list of this year's BAFTA Breakthroughs are as follows:
Ella Bruccoleri, Performer - The Other Bennet SisterIzuka Hoyle, Performer - PrisonerPhilippa Mumford, Production Designer - Juice S2Sophie Stone, Performer - FallingTom Cousins, Creator and Exec Producer - Rafi the Wishing WizardYassmin Abdel-Magied, Writer - Emmerdale
Film
Hollie Bryan, Producer - The CeremonyLouis Paxton, Writer/Director - The IncomerLucy Allen*, Casting Directors - Sunny DancerImran Perretta, Co-writer/Director - IshRegina Meessen, Hair and Make-Up Designer - DreamersTed Evans, Writer/Director - RetreatTom Payne*, Casting Directors - Sunny DancerChris Lynch, Presenter and Producer - In the Driving SeatMyrid Carten, Writer/Director - A Want in HerRunako Celina, Producer and Reporter - Death in Dubai
Games
Eloise Singer, Writer-Director and Producer - The Pirate Queen: No Safe WatersHusban Siddiqi, Game Director and Developer, - Rogue EclipseKate Killick, Creative Director - Pieced TogetherNiru Fekri-Arnold, Creator/Designer - Cursed WordsTom McKay, Lead Performer - Mysteria Ecclesiae: Kingdom Come Deliverance DLCAdd The Other Bennet Sister to your watchlist on the Radio Times: What to Watch app – download now for daily TV recommendations, features and more.
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