If you love the BBC’s Pride & Prejudice miniseries with Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy, you have to take a trip to London now. A giant sculpture depicting Firth’s famous wet shirt scene has been installed in the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park.
The Guardian reports that the 12-foot statue starts its tour of the U.K. in Hyde Park before it finds a permanent home in Lyme Park, Cheshire, where the scene was filmed. While the scene isn’t actually part of the original Jane Austen novel, it has gone on to be remembered as one of the most famous scenes in British TV history.
In fact, the statue is actually part of a promotion for a new channel called Drama. The scene topped a poll, which named it the most memorable TV drama moment.
E! News notes that three sculptors needed two months to complete the fiberglass version of Firth.
“I suppose it is inevitable that Pride and Prejudice be best known for a scene that Austen never wrote,” Austen expert John Mullan told the Guardian about the statue. “This is an installation that celebrates the imagination of Andrew Davies rather than that of Jane Austen.”
Davies’ version of Pride & Prejudice premiered on U.K. TV in 1995, years before Firth became an international star with films like The King’s Speech and Bridget Jones’ Diary.
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