The Current War's Tuppence Middleton on nudity, Fleabag's class debate and Downton Abbey's new love affair

So, is she love? "I'm in love, yes, for one of the characters, I'm sure you can guess which one … which I think deserves a love interest from the fans." It's not that difficult to achieve this result. Branson, the former driver, who married in the Crawley, then lost his wife, Lady Sybil, in childbirth. Middleton makes fun of herself by trying to say things in an encrypted way.

Although she is downstairs in Downton, Middleton admits she is considered an upscale actor, although it probably has more to do with her voice – "rather neutral and chic-sounding" – than her independent education. She grew up in Bristol. "I think I just lost focus when I went to school, but I certainly had it when I was younger."

Last year, on stage, she appeared in The One, a role originally written for Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Middleton embarked on the Fleabag debate. "I certainly did not think it was just for chic girls, the humor is largely universal." The Tuppence appellation, she says, is that it "makes people think that my parents are crazy hippies and really not. They are nice, ordinary people. My mother is a hairdresser, my father works for an investment company.

Her older sister, Angel, is a social worker who recently had twins, making Middleton an aunt for the first time. Their younger brother, Josh, is the lead guitarist of the heavy metal band Architects, and the only siblings to have escaped their parents' penchant for naming their children for tenderness (he was almost Bubba). Was he still playing guitar in his room when he was a kid? She laughs. "He did not even do it in his room – he would hate me for saying that – he used to go sit on the toilet and lock the door of the bathroom because it said that the acoustics were really good and me and my sister would be knocking on the door, "Josh! You have been there for hours!

She was "very dreamy as a child," she says. "I got lost in books and movies and I was a bit sad when real life was not as adventurous or romantic." That feeling was not present then that "I'm not sure. she flew to St. Petersburg and its palaces in winter to film War and Peace. It was one of the last major projects to have been produced by Weinstein before he was engulfed by multiple accusations ranging from badual restraint to rape. "I met her," she said, "but he was still running inside and outside the plateau, I've never been face to face with him for a while." extended period.