Dark times to come at Downton Abbey. Fans may not yet have recovered from the shocking deaths of Lady Sybil and Matthew Crawley in the previous series but one of its stars has hinted that worse may be to come.
Allen Leech who plays former chauffeur and recent widower Tom Branson in the period drama, warned the Londoner that no one is safe in the hands of writer Julian Fellowes. “He’s turned everything on its head,” he tells me. “You’re going to see some characters who you thought were safe in a very dark place. We all sat down with the first four scripts and were just blown away: he’s not jumped the shark but people are tested in a way that you won’t expect.”
Leech braved the rain on Saturday to sip champagne at the Moët & Chandon-sponsored tennis at Queen’s but spent most of the time waiting for play to start. “I love tennis but I’ve never watched it live before today. Or at all today, actually,” he said.
