Must-read article! Ben Lloyd-Hughes’s idea was to channel Matthew Macfadyen’s Darcy’s walk on the Sanditon cliff scene in Episode 3/Season 3.
Sanditon Season 3 showrunner Justin Young revealed that the Darcy homage was 100% Lloyd-Hughes’s idea. The script originally imagined Colbourne riding up to Charlotte on horseback, but Ben Lloyd-Hughes had another idea.