“I almost got married once,” Persuasion’s Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson) tells the audience at the beginning of a new trailer.

Persuasion Main Trailer

Jane Austen’s most mature heroine really is that girl. Eight years after some bad advice prompted her to give up her one true love, Captain Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis), she’s still pining away, lost in her memories of what could have been. It’s hard to blame her, though. Stuck in a grand but impoverished household with her incredibly vain father, Sir Walter Elliot (Richard E. Grant) and preening older sister Elizabeth (Yolanda Kettle), or summoned by Mary (Mia McKenna-Bruce), her comically selfish, married younger sister, Anne has few other comforts left. Her only ally is her late mother’s best friend, Lady Russell (Nikki Amuka-Bird) — the very person who encouraged Anne to break her engagement to Wentworth all those years ago. But when the dashing captain suddenly comes back into her life, Anne wonders, “Could this be a second chance at happiness?” Or will the unexpected attentions of a smoldering newcomer (Henry Golding) present her with a completely different future?

Based on Austen’s 1818 novel of the same name (published posthumously six months after her death), Persuasion is directed by Carrie Cracknell in her feature debut. But don’t expect yet another Pride and Prejudice-y adaptation — this trailer promises Regency delights with a modern twist. In a style that’s closer to Enola Holmes than Elizabeth Bennet, Anne often speaks directly into the camera, winking at the audience as she swigs directly from a wine bottle or confronts her former paramour with jam on her face. 

Persuasion premieres on Netflix July 15 — prep your corsets and best manners. Anne needs all the allies she can get.