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Jane Austen like you've never seen it before... DIRECTOR PUTS NAKED GIRL IN BATH FOR STEAMY ADAPTION.(News)

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From: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
Date: 20070318
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Byline: BY ROZ LAWS TV Editor

ACTRESS Felicity Jones has revealed how TV's latest Jane Austen adaptation became steamy in more ways than one.

The pretty Midlander is the heroine in Northanger Abbey, adapted for ITV1 by racy writer Andrew Davies.

He was the man who put Colin Firth in a wet shirt for Pride And Prejudice.

And he put Felicity NAKED in a bath in the middle of a field.

But the 22 year-old was more bothered about being in hot water than having to take her clothes off.

"Everyone was worried I'd be too cold," she says. "So they ...

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