Greta Lee

Jennifer Saunders, wonderful Jennifer, playing her mom and I play her dad.

And Hayley Bennett plays this Edwardian girl who actually doesn't fit the bill of potential wifehood from an Edwardian point of view.

She wants to go to university.

She's an astronomer and quite a talented one.

And she's trying to...

manipulate the situation for them to understand that she doesn't want to marry this young man she's known all her life, a family friend.

And so it's a battle of wills, really, from the beginning.

And it's an investigation of this world, this milieu, this Edwardian world, where it's about to undergo a paradigm shift, or a very slow paradigm shift, if there can be one, about women's attitudes, about what they wanted to do, independent.

So my character, Mr. Hillbreed,

in a sense, is representative of that immovable Edwardian patriarchy.

But he also, I think, he also, in a way, is someone who's the bolts of that kind of resolve are loosening a little bit.

And this investigates this woman, young woman's determination

of Clow in her own furrow towards what she wants to do and actually getting a lot of, meeting a lot of resistance.

And then it takes her into a whole milieu of this Edwardian world.

She's introduced to Lily Allen's character, who's a suffragette running this kind of alternative world of people she's introduced to.

Then she goes and because her father,

doesn't allow her to study in her house he's had enough of her he's had enough of everything really her father he's just he desperately wants to sort her out but he can't you know and then there's a whole gallery of other characters rather eccentric and there's another suit who comes along who she takes an interesting dislike to but obviously she deeply underneath it all she's rather intrigued by him so you know

I'm telling you much of a great story here, but it's actually... But also the flavor of it, I think, is a very different... Justine Waddell, who's written it, has taken the book and kind of opened it up into this world.

It has a whole different atmosphere.

It's not stuffy.