Jessica Brown Findlay is moving away from the luxurious county estate where it all began. The “Downton Abbey” alumna will try out decidedly less glamorous living arrangements in “Flatshare.” Paramount+ snagged rights to the London-set drama ahead of its U.K. launch this summer. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed this news.
Based on a best-selling novel by Beth O’Leary, “Flatshare” is penned by Rose Lewenstein (“On the Edge”). The series follows Tiffany (Brown Findlay) and Leon (Anthony Welsh, “The Great”), “two cash-strapped twentysomethings who share a bed — despite having never met. They share a flat together as she works during work hours at a content mill website, while he works nights at a hospice. They get unexpectedly drawn into one another’s lives, and an attraction begins to evolve backward,” the source teases.
“’Flatshare’ gives a flavor of the high-quality local content that viewers can look forward to from Paramount+,” said Sebastian Cardwell, deputy chief content officer, U.K., for Paramount.
Chloë Wicks (“On the Edge”) is a part of “Flatshare’s” directors’ roster.
“Brave New World” and “Harlots” are among Brown Findlay’s other credits.
“In the past, things have happened to me personally and to a lot of other women where the media have tried to expose or shame us,” Brown Findlay told Glamour in 2019. She explained, “It’s interesting because as I get older and play interesting characters and phenomenal women, I found my own acceptance of myself. I feel liberated, and I no longer feel shame. You’re always having to interact with media and it can have this other end to it. It’s taken me a lot of personal growth to put my chin up again and not apologize for being a woman. I will never apologize for being female. In all the scope and range that it is to be a woman, I will never apologize.”
Source: Women And Hollywood