Joanne Froggatt: 'Sexual assault survivors wrote to me after the rape scene aired - they said they weren't believed'

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Joanne Froggatt is trying to tell me about one of the most ludicrous scripts she’s been sent over the years, but every time the Downton Abbey star nears the punchline she dissolves into laughter. ‘It was the script to a horror film,’ she manages eventually, ‘and I got to the point where the character’s fake boobs exploded and thought, “You know what? I don’t think this is for me.

 

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