Doubt we'd ever reach full agreement with either film makers or even each other on that one. Too many options. Ages that agree with the books have to be considereation although film makers allow themselves some artistic licence with that. Jennifer Ehle was considered by some to be too full-figured for Lizzie, Colin Firth looked older than the book's twenty seven years. Lydia was supposed to be taller than Lizzie yet was five inches shorter in casting. The B.B.C mini-series is probably as near as we'll get to Pride and Prejudice as Jane Austen intended it. There will still always be different opinions. Ciaran Hines was also older than I thought right for Frederick Wentworth in Persuasion.
With much variance in opinion, by the time our choices were ready for the filming to start they'd probably also be over aged and retired.
Because I enjoyed most of them in general I'll stay with the ones chosen. Just one preference; I would definitely have cast
Penelope Keith as the ultimate Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice. Had she ever learned the lines........(-:
