Amanda Root originally was wanted by Ang Lee and Emma Thompson for the role of Marianne Dashwood in their adaptation of another Jane Austen film, Raison et sentiments (1995), and she performed the role at a read-through of an early draft of the script before she was cast in Persuasion.
Susan Fleetwood (Lady Russell) passed away 5 months after the release of the film.
Made for British television and originally screened by the BBC in April 1995, the film was released theatrically around the rest of the world.
Because of the meager budget, the closing shots of Captain Wentworth's ship were reused from Le Bounty (1984).
This adaptation of the Jane Austen novel ended up being released as a feature film, titled simply "Persuasion" - without the title reference to "Screen Two."