'Downton Abbey' creator's new TV show is painfully accurat

PASADENA, Calif. — The interval costumes of a Julian Fellowes drama might perhaps be excruciatingly correct, as an actress in his unusual sequence “Belgravia” stumbled on.

The Epix drama from “Downton Abbey” creator Fellowes and executive producer Gareth Neame is determined in 19th-century London and parts Tamsin Greig, who starred in the TV comedy “Episodes,” and Philip Glenister (“Cranford”).

Requested if the give an explanation for outfits had been subtle or easy to work in, Greig gave a mercurial acknowledge.

“Raise out you watched that they stare easy?’ she acknowledged. “I turned into once below the care of an osteopath interior a week of filming, and I realized that I could perhaps well also honest silent have willing higher by carrying a corset for a pair of hours on daily basis in the weeks up to beginning set up shooting.”

It’s impossible to procure the silhouette of the 1840s with out the binding undergarment that females wore, she acknowledged. If the dinky sequence’ actresses stare enjoy they’re joyful, Greig added, “it’s if truth be told immense appearing.”

Alice Eve (“Bombshell”) and Ella Purnell (“Sweetbitter”) also vital person in the sequence and joined in a presentation to TV critics Saturday. The six-part drama will debut April 12.

“Belgravia,” situation in the huge London neighborhood of that name, turned into once adapted by Fellowes from his eponymous 2016 original. Requested to compare the sequence to “Downton Abbey,” the hit TV drama that unfolded in the early 1900s, Fellowes acknowledged the projects think the courses by which they’re situation.

For the Epix dinky sequence, it’s the “upward push of the immense Victorian era of producing and cash and … the growth of London,” he acknowledged. “Whereas you should perhaps well yell that ‘Downton’ turned into once on the opposite aspect of the hill, it turned into once part of the decline, in particular as we observe it thru the ‘20s.”

“Belgravia” is a “can-map uncover,” he acknowledged. “It be if truth be told about of us achieving what they wish, despite the difficulties the society places in their direction. … Nonetheless I’m hoping it is miles mainly a extra or much less uplifting story.”

Fellowes turned into once jubilant by the reception for closing year’s colossal show conceal version of “Downton Abbey,” which arrived four years after the sequence ended on PBS, but turned into once noncommittal regarding the different of a 2d film. He’s acquired one more TV sequence in the works, “The Gilded Age” for HBO, situation in 1880s The united states.