She also worked alongside Emma on Sense and Sensibility, Howards End, and Remains of the Day!
"That's one of my favourite moments", Emma told film critic Ashley Saunders!The next day, Emma had an x-ray and was told she needed physical therapy to help heal her shoulder, which pushed filming back by two months
I mean, maybe someone somewhere has played her and is English, but in the canon of notable Cruella iterations, every actor has been American except for Victoria Smurfit (Once Upon a Time) who is Irish and Michelle Gomez (101 Dalmatian Street) who is Scottish