WATCH: Downton Abbey’s Jessica Brown Findlay gets raunchy in sex worker drama Harlots
SHE’S most known for playing Lady Sybil Crawley in Downton Abbey, but now Jessica Brown Findlay is quite the opposite starring as a sex worker in new drama Harlots.
Jessica Brown Findlay gets raunchy in Harlots
Hulu teases new show Harlots with a first look trailer
The 27-year-old actress played the innocent character for two years in the period drama and left the show in 2012 as the Downton Abbey Lady tragically passed away shortly after giving birth.
So her fans may be surprised to see the star playing a more provocative role as Charlotte Wells who works as one of London’s high-end courtesans.
The new show is an ITV/Hulu co-production and the trailer hints that it will be a saucy fast-paced show, jam-packed with tight corsets, busty chests and plenty of spanking.
Jessica Brown-Findlay stars as Charlotte Wells who works as one of London’s high-end courtesans
Jessica Brown-Findlay stars in Harlots which will follow the lives of sex workers and their patrons
Harlots is an eight-part series set against the backdrop of 18th century Georgian London and will offer a take of the city’s most valuable commercial activity - sex.
It will follow the lives of sex workers and their patrons and the series will start of with a fierce rivalry between two madams, newcomer Lydia Quigley (played by Lesley Manville) and Charlotte’s own mother Margaret (Samantha Morton).
The entire series was written and directed by an all-female crew and executive producer Alison Owen, had previously promised the show will be angled from a “whore’s-eye view”.
She also revealed there will be just as much male nudity as there is female after many complaints that there is an imbalance in shows like Game of Thrones.
The show will feature a lot of busty chests, spanking and tight corsets
The new series will feature a lot of male and female nudity
Commenting on the commission of Harlots, she said to ITV: “In 1760s London there were brothels on every corner run by women who were both enterprising and tenacious.
“History has largely ignored them, but their stories are in turn outrageous, brutal, humorous and real.”
The show will be streamed on US service Hulu from the end of March and will debut on ITV Encore in the UK.