Claire Foy's latest role shows how a 1960s high-profile divorce was used to 'shame' women.
In Claire Foy's latest drama she plays someone who is slut-shamed and a victim of so-called revenge porn.The Golden Globe-winning actress plays Margaret Campbell, the Duchess of Argyll, who went through a high-profile, damaging and distressing public divorce.BBC / Blueprint ProductionsPaul Bettany plays the Duke of Argyll and accused his wife, the Duchess of Argyll, of adultery
"The easiest shortcut in any society of how to bring a woman down is to expose her as being unwomanly," says Claire. They'd both been divorced already, which was seen as far a more scandalous and controversial issue than it is now. One of the complex things about the character, according to Claire, is that in real life the duchess was - at times - "a horrible person".
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