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Wedding scene - who's Wickham in bed with?

Topic 41 · 5 responses · archived october 2000
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~catie seed
Upon watching P&P2 many times I can't figure out if Wickham is in bed with Lydia or some other woman when they show him during Lizzie and Darcy's wedding. Lydia is not in the church. Any thoughts? 5 new of
~kendall #1
I agree that she did not look like Lydia - but I think she was at least supposed to be Lydia - a stand-in or a completely new hairdo or something!!
~Karen #2
Ladies, ladies. I know the man is a dog but that is Lydia. If you are used to seeing Julia S. (Lydia), her hair is usually down. No, that's Lydia in the bed. I think that seen is meant to show Wickham's growing disallusionment with Lydia. He is still drinking and she is trying to frolick. This does not seem to be a good sign for newly wedded couple.
~amy2 #3
I gathered that he was in bed with Lydia. What is the Minister's Voiceover during this cut? Something about "Those who fornicate. . ." isn't it?
~DaRcYfAn #4
I agree...I think the Director was refering to Lydia and Wickham having lived together before they were married...a no-no back then...and I agree the picture that was shown of the "newleyweds" did not show a happy couple. In the book, JA points out that Lydia would come and stay at Pemberley when her husband had gone to London or Bath "to enjoy himself". Tsk-Tsk...we can only imagine Wickhams way of enjoying himself....I'm sure that old dog stayed playing his old tricks!
~catie #5
Thanks for clearing this up for me. I watched the scene several times and wasn't sure if it was Lydia or not.
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