![]() Lily is better placed than most to judge the job Andrew Davies has done in adapting it for TV. In War and Peace, the audience meets those affected by conflict from peasants,soldiers to society hostesses and even Napoleon himself. ![]() The director would call “Action!” and – bang – the book would be back under the table. “I’d be reading between takes at the dining table. I was reading it while we were filming Downton. The characters are so rich and I adore Tolstoy’s tone and the humour with which he describes people. She said: “You have to read it, it’s so addictive. Lily read the novel before taking the part and in fact had it with her whenever she was filming on Downton. Pierre Bezukhov, played by US actor Paul Dano, is a newcomer in Russian society seeking meaning in his life, his friend Andrei Bolkonsky, played by Grantchester’s James Norton, a cynical prince who longs for the glory of war, and the woman who binds them, captivating teen Natasha Rostova, who is desperate to grow up, played Set over eight years amidst the Napoleon-led French invasion of Russia from 1805, it focuses on the lives of three young people set to be changed forever. Leo Tolstoy’s revered novel is a work of literary genius, regarded by scholars as one of the greatest novels ever written. WAR and Peace is a drama that only comes in one size: epic.
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