The actress has moved on from Downton fame – taking on a fourth-wall-busting Ibsen adaptation, and blowing the whistle on industry sexism

‘The problem with theatre,” says Jessica Brown Findlay, “is that sometimes it can feel like this exclusive club for which you need a PhD in order to become a member.” By way of explanation, the actress – who found fame as the forward-thinking socialite Lady Sybil Crawley in Downton Abbey – tells me about her recent slip during rehearsals for Thomas Ostermeier’s fourth-wall-busting adaptation of An Enemy of the People, in which she’s playing a doctor’s wife.

“There’s a bit of audience participation in the show – it’s quite a radical reworking – and I started talking about the fifth wall,” she says, un­abashed. “Everyone looked at me, and someone said, ‘Er, what’s that then… the ceiling?!’”
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We gathered so many new magazine scans you guys have no idea how happy we are to share them to you!! Enjoy over 40 new magazine scans featuring Jessica including HD versions of older scans we had in very low quality on the gallery as well as brand new scans. Separated by years, browse through this newly updated category:

In this post you can find a collection of several interviews that include Jessica while promoting Flatshare for Paramount+. See the following interviews, HeyAlexandra!, The Upcoming, Brief Take, The Gate, PureGainAudio, AP, Paramount Plus, and screencaps below:

Even though The Hanging Sun wasn’t heavily promoted, we managed to find a few interviews and combined them all in this post. Join Jessica as Lea in this adaptation on Sky. Some of them aren’t available anymore or changed names, but here is a list of the ones currently available to watch: The Hanging Sun, Backstage; Il Giornale D’Italia; DIRE; Lea; Caleb.

 Interviews & Talkshows > Movies > The Hanging Sun

Also over the gallery added new on set pictures as well as new production stills and promotional pictures from The Hanging Sun! Let’s hope we can have access to the movie soon 😉

Film Productions > 2022. The Hanging Sun

Downton’s Jessica Brown Findlay is binge watching the Kardashians. She chats to us about her new project, The Flatshare, coming to Paramount+. 

The Flatshare is based on the Beth O’Leary book of the same name, and follows two twenty-something year olds, Tiff and Leon, living on completely opposite schedules. So opposite, in fact, that they share a one-bedroom flat. While Leon works nights, Tiff has the bed and the space – and vice versa – never quite meeting. And yet, little by little, they realise that they might just be more than roommates. Tiff is played by Jessica Brown Findlay while Anthony Welsh will play Leon.

Tell us about The Flatshare – what can we expect?

The return of the Rom-Com meets the London rental market.

What about any flatshares you’ve lived in?

I once rented the living room of a place. So, it was mine after ten. But before then it was a waiting game for other flatmates to leave.

Why do you think the show will resonate with people?

I think it speaks to the relentlessness of cities… How you can feel swallowed up by them and generationally how hard it is to gain stability. 

And any funny on-set stories?

Yes… The very first day of rehearsals I thought they had put things out for breakfast and made myself a bowl of cereal. But then, after about an hour, I realised that it was part of set and kindly provided by our props department! I basically walked in and started eating the scenery!? It broke the ice and Anthony and I and our director Pete found it very, very funny. 

Now, quick-fire:

I’m tuning into… Bad Sisters and Minx. 

What I’m reading… Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason (Orion, £8.99). 

The last thing I watched was… Lena Dunham’s Catherine Called Birdy. Wow. 

What I’m most looking forward to seeing… My husband’s face when he becomes a father. 

Favourite painting… Combing the Hair by Degas is a favourite that I always go to find at the National Gallery – I also love Far from the Beaten Path by Dan Hollings. 

Favourite film of all time… It depends what time of year it is, right now it’s back to When Harry Met Sally. The ultimate autumn movie. 

Band/singer I always have on repeat… Laura Marling and Neil Young.

My ultimate cultural recommendation… Walk everywhere, you might stumble upon a diamond of a spot. Hidden gallery, tiny restaurant, a quiet square, music. Or an old friend. 

Cultural guilty pleasure… The Kardashians, Love Island, re-runs of The Hills, any reality TV. I love it! 

What’s next for me is… A spot of child labour, then I’m going back to the First World War – and learning how to play football.

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Shot in Norway and based on the novel of the same name by Jo Nesbø, here is “The Hanging Sun – Midnight Sun” told by the protagonists: Alessandro Borghi and Jessica Brown Findlay

Alessandro Borghi is John, a man who runs away from a troubled past and a life of crime. Jessica Brown Findlay is Lea, a woman who lives in the shadow of an abusive husband (for whose disappearance she is held responsible) and an oppressive father. They are the protagonists of The Hanging Sun – Midnight Sun , the film directed by Francesco Carrozzini who, after making his directorial debut in 2016 filming Franca: Chaos and creation (the documentary dedicated to his mother Franca Sozzani , historical director of Vogue Italia), he shot his fiction film starting with Midnight Sun , one of Jo Nesbø ‘s most introspective and dark novels .

The two characters are complex, tormented, marked by a path of suffering and trapped in a present contaminated by a dark past. The film – which after closing the Venice Film Festival out of Competition on Saturday 10 September, will only be in cinemas from 12 to 14 September (it will soon arrive on Sky Cinema) – will show us if there will be a redemption for their destinies. We talked about this with the two actors, two completely different characters : he Roman, extroverted, impulsive, she English, attentive, measured.

What did you like about this story?

Jessica Brown Findlay – The characters: they are two people who observe, do not judge and who have the courage to be in conflict with the rules of the world in which they grew up and in which they do not find themselves. And then the setting: total tranquility, the profound silence of the place where history comes to life.

Alessandro Borghi – I read the book after agreeing to participate in the project. But the gestation of the film started some time before and had a lot to do with my relationship with Francesco. We met 7 years ago in London, on the set of a photographic campaign, then we met in Los Angeles and then in Venice. And during all this time we talked, chatted, discovering a sharing of values ​​and a sense of Italianness that united us. Two years ago, during a brunch in Venice, Francesco told me about The Hanging Sunwarning me that he had already decided the cast, all English. The next day, however, she calls me and tells me: “I’ve decided that I have to do this film with you”. I, displaced, of course I accepted. And from here began a long creative and emotional process that we carried out together. The film is very different from the book: it is a more psychological thriller than the novel. A project in which Francesco and I have made our friendship available.

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Brave New World was one of the categories on the gallery I was super excited to update as this site was up for adoption along that time. Jessica did an amazing job, and I loved her character as well as the show’s story, aesthetic and content, sadly, it was cancelled by Peacock and it never got a S2. Enjoy Jessica as Lenina with posters & promo pictures, episode stills and screencaps from all 10 episodes over the gallery.

Television Work > 2020. Brave New World

As for the interviews categories, this TV Series was released under a pandemic, so most interviews are via Zoom. See the full list: Get to Know the Cast, Entertainment Tonight, Comic-Con@HOME,  BuzzFeed Celeb, On Demand Entertainment, Entertainment Focus, Heatworld, DigitalSpy, Featurette, HeyUGuys, E! Red Carpet & Award Shows, ET Live, Xfinity, Syfy Wire, IGN.

Interviews & Talkshows > TV Series

Another day means another gallery update! This time I choose Victor Frankenstein to update over the gallery. I had to delete all HD screencaps and substitute  the current a little over 400 screencaps for full 731 Blu-Ray screencaps since the previous update was missing at least three screencapped scenes with Jessica’s character.  Also added brand new on set, production stills, promotional pictures and a b-roll footage screencaps to the same movie category:

Film Productions > 2015. Victor Frankenstein

And following the same pattern as The Riot Club, I have also added screencaps of Jessica being interviewed for this movie in our Interviews & Talkshows category. You can see the following interviews online: IMDB. Unfortunately I didn’t find any other interview so, for now, only one has been added:

Interviews & Talkshows > Movies