13 years after her sad departure from Downton Abbey, this actress makes a remarkable return

You may have forgotten her… However, she is one of the favorite characters of fans of Downton Abbey. This actress is in the casting of a new series in which she plays the main role.

He is a character who marked the first three seasons of Downton Abbey and whose departure saddened many fans of the series who will soon be entitled to a third spin-off film. Jessica Brown Findlay, the actress who played Lady Sybil, left the series thirteen years ago and is now in the casting of a new fiction called Playing Nicecurrently broadcast in England. In this four-episode drama, we follow the story of two couples faced with a terrifying dilemma after discovering that their children were switched at birth. The actress, now 35, says she drew on her own experience as the mother of two-year-old twins, whom she had through in vitro fertilization with her husband, actor Ziggy Heath. “When I read the script, our sons were six months old and still little babies. I told my husband that if someone pointed at one of our children and said they weren’t not really ours, I would say: ‘I don’t care’ I would fight tooth and nail.”a confié Jessica Brown Findlay à Hello !.

Jessica Brown Findlay is personally invested in her new role

“There are certain truths which, once you have discovered them, you can no longer ignore them, and that in itself […] would make you lose your mind. It really scared me.”remembers the actress. “I found out about the exchanges [de bébés] and I fell into a bottomless pit where bad embryos were used or transferred into people during IVF, which really scared me“, she says again before returning to her own experience: “Our boys were born via IVF, but they are 100% our family. They are like carbon copies of us”.

Downton Abbey : the death of Lady Sybil, a drama for fans

In season 3 of Downton Abbeywhose producer recently made a promise to fans, Lady Sybil gives birth to a little girl but dies a few hours later of eclampsia. If Lady Sybil’s death was very difficult for fans to accept, it was planned from the start in the storyline. “Jessica said she was going to leave from the start, it was planned. She said, ‘I’ll do three years, then I’ll leave.’ So that’s what we did.”explained Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey.

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