period drama

She won the best actress Oscar in 1999 for starring in period drama Shakespeare In Love, and also featured in Sliding Doors and a string of later Marvel movies.

“Sinners,” the highly anticipated period drama delivering a mashup of horror, music and vampires, scored a solid opening, topping the holiday box office with $45.6 million.

Methods which McIlroy used to zone out included watching racy period drama Bridgerton - which he claimed he was talked into by wife Erica - and Disney animation Zootopia with his four-year-old daughter Poppy.

Marsh told NPR in 2011 that she and Atkins came up with the idea while watching a period drama on TV.

Marsh came up with the idea of a period drama involving the servants of a wealthy family while house sitting in France with her friend Dame Eileen Atkins, she later told the New York Times.