#LOUISE BROOKS PBS THE CHAPERONE DRIVER#

“I have always been very aware of Louise Brooks, because when my mother was very young she was often mistaken for Louise Brooks because she had the same hairstyle,” he said. As for his connection to the bob-touting actress, Fellowes had one longstanding association. McGovern plays the chaperone, here named Norma, opposite Haley Lu Richardson’s flirty take on Louise Brooks. Based on a historical fiction novel by Laura Moriarty, the story melds fact and fiction by extemporizing the role of Brooks’ chaperone, a married woman who escorted her to New York, but about whom not much else is known. It was the Lady of “Downton Abbey” herself, Elizabeth McGovern, who first floated the idea for his latest film, “The Chaperone.” Set in the 1920s, the film follows silent film star Louise Brooks’ move to New York City when she was just a teenager. While his extensive stage and screen experience influenced his writing, he also writes with a grand respect and admiration for the work of actors, which might explain how he’s been able to lure so many good ones to his projects. The recent trend in Hollywood is to write your own material and parlay that into an acting career, such as Kumail Nanjiani or the “Broad City” duo. “Casting is one of the areas where I know that my scripts will live or die by who is cast in them, so I do take the greatest interest in that.”

“I always take a great interest in the casting,” Fellowes told IndieWire during a recent phone interview.

#LOUISE BROOKS PBS THE CHAPERONE DRIVER#

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