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:

We have added the scans from Jess’s cover and interview with ES Magazine back in July 2015. The photoshoot by Lucia OConnor McCarthy is absolutely beautiful!

GQ UK Magazine features The Riot Club cast in its October issue in an Autumn Dress Code feature. Actors Sam Claflin, Max Irons, Douglas Booth, Jessica Brown Findlay, and Jack Farthing – reveal their fashion secrets.

Any fashion tips for us guys?
Men’s fashion is more interesting than women’s/ They get all the best shoes. I love a good brogue, anything like that. What do I like to see on a guy? Nothing too “Oh, bloody hell! That’s a jacket!” It should just be kind of there and not so intense that it’s the only thing you can see.”

Jess was on the cover of the Sunday Telegraph Magazine yesterday – we are hunting down a copy to scan for you! (New Layout too btw!) We hope you like it, its a little brighter and fresh – fit for summer – yay. We have also created a Facebook page for the fansite so you can keep up-to-date with all your Jess news, please like us!

Beautiful, ballsy and never predictable, Jessica Brown Findlay tells Charlotte Sinclair about her gutsy new role – and why, despite doing justice to the ballgowns, she’s happier when she’s dirty. (Photos by Boo George) The issue hits newsstands today. We will get scans for you as soon as possible!

She made her name playing the much-love Lady Sybil in period drama Downton Abbey, but is appears actress Jessica Brown Findlay is not well suited to the genteel lifestyle. She has disclosed she “absolutely hates” corsets pledging never to wear one again after being killed off on the popular show.

Brown Findlay, who will soon star in the BBC’s Jamaica Inn, said she turned down another series of the programme fearing it had grown too big, with fans’ obsession with on-screen events leaving her baffled.

She told the May issue of Vogue: “There was a moment during filming when everyone was suddenly saying ‘Oh, so and so said something about the show.’ Or, ‘Have you seen this on Twitter?’” “I just felt, ‘Why does that matter?’ It’s great to be involved in something that people really enjoy, but it made me nervous as opposed to excited.

“So when I was asked about renewing my contract, I thought: ‘God, what if it just keeps getting bigger and I can never play anything other than Sybil?’ “The way to try and stop that was to stop playing Sybil.” On the downside of costume dramas, she added: “I hate corsets. I absolutely hate them. Ugh. I don’t think I’ll ever wear a corset again.

“I don’t even own scales. Getting into a smaller jeans size is not going to make me a better actor.”

The full interview is in the May issue of British Vogue, out from Monday, April 7.