United Kingdom, Oct. 16 -- 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 ...