Daisy Edgar-Jones thinks Jane Austen's work is timeless.

The 28-year-old actress plays Elinor Dashwood in a movie adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, Austen's 1811 novel, and Daisy feels grateful that the source material is "so transcendent".

The brunette beauty told E! News: "What Austen was writing about was the human experience. And therefore every new group of individuals that make her books and bring them to life, just the mere kind of individuality of the people making it, but also the context of which it's being made, will kind of imprint into something different."

Daisy was particularly attracted to director Georgia Oakley's take on a classic tale.

She said: "I was really struck by Georgia Oakley's vision for this and how she wanted to see a version of the Dashwoods that felt really raw and earthy and quite undone in a really beautiful way, and to really centralize the sisterhood and the love story being between the two women as the kind of main arc of the film. And I feel like she really achieved that."

Daisy is one of the most sought-after actresses in Hollywood - but she previously admitted to suffering self-doubts.

The film star told Harper's Bazaar magazine: "There were definitely many points where I wasn't sure if I would be able to make a career out of acting.

"There were definitely lots of months when I'd left college, when all my friends went off to uni and I was stuck at home - not getting any work, not getting any auditions. I didn't know if it was really something I'd be able to make a career from."

Daisy's philosophical attitude has helped her to navigate the pitfalls of the film business.

She said: "There's one saying that's definitely helped me in my professional life, which is to take it seriously, but wear it lightly.

"And I think that's really good, because it's important to take things seriously and work really hard, and be passionate about things, but stuff doesn't always work out and you do get rejection, and your dreams change and morph as you go along, so if you wear it lightly it means that with every new thing you can handle it, and it doesn't completely destroy you if things don't work out exactly the way you thought they would."