In In England you're sort of raised with Pride and Prejudice. It's sort of, you know. Jane Austen is like a yeah, it's It's on the curriculum. It's in your blood. You will you will be British.

From Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies, Lily James, Douglas Booth, hangin' out with me on the couch. Thanks so much for dropping by.

Thank you for having us. It's always always a treat.

You know, you do a lot of fighting in this movie, especially you, Lily. What kind of training did you have to go through though?

Well, it was very intense and long. Um, because it really is the girls that are right on the front line and being the crap out of the zombies. It's it's a serious girl power movie. We wanted to do it justice. So I think individually we all trained for months and then we got together for this like Ninja boot camp where we were

Ninja boot camp?

Yeah. I feel like I would have really

And it was impressive. I mean they were really impressive.

So what were you doing this whole time?

I was in the pub. Having a martini. Yeah. No.

No, Mr. Bingley who you play in the movie actually has it kinda nice cuz he just kinda gets to shout at people.

Yeah, exactly. I mean he's in the yeah he's in the he kinda is in the army fighting the zombies but he kinda he's not actually the best fighter. He's a bit helpless.

A little bit.

But no I just I got had the pleasure and it's so refreshing for the girls to be doing like all the most of the action in this, you know.

It began with the black plague. Within weeks the dead began to rise. Yeah, it's massive girl power. So, uh, yeah. It's great. Do you remember any of your moves?

People have been asking me this all day but I'm wearing these incredible shoes so unfortunately I can't break it down right now. But otherwise I would have.

All right. Well maybe we can put you in like a corset or something. You want to mess with the monster. No in addition to all the physical stuff which sounds like she was doing the most of the work and you got to just kinda chill.

Yeah.

Um Were you fans of Pride and Prejudice before?

Yeah like you're being born in In England you're sort of raised with Pride and Prejudice. It's sort of, you know. Jane Austen is like a yeah it's It's on the curriculum. It's in your blood. You will you will be British.

Oh you're you will be British. Oh we watched that whole six-hour long Colin Firth mini series.

Oh it's amazing. So yeah. And then and then obviously Seth wrote Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and became it's it's not as big in England as it is here cuz I think here it was like the New York Time One of the New York Times best seller and um it was you know a lot of my American friends are big fans of the book so I think cuz it had such success here they decided to turn it into a film. But it's been around for a while. Like Natalie Portman like David O. Russell, he he optioned the book and wrote the draft and Natalie Portman was gonna play it. And then I think she got too old but she's still producing it. She still loves it.

You played what? That was like six years ago.

Yeah it was a while ago.

So did you guys brush up on your You're not old. You are so cute. Wow. And what was it like playing off those zombies? They're pretty terrifying, I don't know. Like those are some scary zombies. Zombies are never like cute and cuddly. But I mean these we never quite want to be in a room with a zombie and ours were pretty scary, weren't they?

Yeah. But I I had I got ready in these zombie buses. Like a zombie bus and there was a I don't know why they put me in a zombie bus.

I have no idea why they put you in the zombie bus. It was me and Marin in the zombie bus.

What was that like? What?

It just so I kinda saw them getting ready for hours every morning. So I was slightly less terrified. I saw them coming in as like little, you know, you know

Sweet little

Sweet little man coming in the morning and then by the end of it he's like I'm like having to eat lunch opposit 'em in half their face melting and dead meat.

Yeah it put you off your lunch.

So how prepared are you for the impending zombie apocalypse would you say?

Pretty good. I'm there.

Yeah pretty good. Yeah. As long as I've got the Bennet sisters around me.

Right. Well I did want to test your knowledge on how well you know your Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies. And I wanted to have the two of you play against each other if that's okay.

Okay.

Are you ready?

I'm ready to play.

Sure.

So Darcy's estate is called is it A, Longbourn, B, Narnia, or C, Pemberley?

I know the answer.

Is is So you're playing against each other so you can

Oh okay so I think it's I I think it's one, two, three. Longbourn.

Yeah. C.

Are you about to talk

Is it Pemberley?

It's actually Narnia.

It's Narnia. I wish it was.

It's Pemberley.

We got it right. C.

Oh no, did I say Longbourn? Oh, I said C.

You got it right I think. What was I think it's one point for you. Okay. According to the website Live Science the safest country to be in during a zombie outbreak is A, the United States, B, Thailand or C, Australia?

It's Australia.

Douglas, care to answer?

Really complicated. Australia because it's it's got it's own ocean around it. Although America's got more guns on this per per person than anywhere else in the planet so they're pretty well armed for it.

You're both right. It's Australia because it's an island.

It's an island.

It's Australia and it's actually so this is based on geographical location like you mentioned. Military connectedness and population density. Also armed populace. Actually that was one of the factors. So there I mean maybe per capita, I don't know. There's a lot less people down there.

Probably just move to Australia so I'm happy. In case there is a zombie apocalypse I'll be fine.

Exactly. One of my family members.

Yes. All right, the last one. Author Jane Austen never married but she did once accept a proposal but then went back on it.

I knew that.

So how soon did she say to the guy, "Thanks, but no thanks"? Was it A, one day, B, one week, or C, one month?

I have a feeling it wouldn't be it would be longer than a day. Did she find out something about him or I can't remember what it was. Was it a month?

I did not read that far into Wikipedia but next time I'll be I actually kinda annoyed I can't remember this because I did. I'll go week.

You go month. I wanna go month. Yeah.

Ooh. This will stump both of you. One day.

Is it one day?

One. So she must have realized really fast that she didn't want to do it.

Yeah.

She was engaged to the rich brother of a friend and then a second it's like, "Uh, no, not so much."

Wow. How cool is that?

Yeah. She was pretty she was pretty

Yeah. That's even cooler that it was a day. She was like, yeah I have to say yes because we have to It was like "nah, I'm not gonna do it."

Nah.

Thank you so much for coming by and sharing your your zombie apocalypse with me. It was really fun.