Helen Hunt as Nancy Campbell Courtesy of Masterpiece PBS "It was a really beautiful way of honoring our family stories, knowing that some of the characters were loosely based on real people." "My own grandmother was a jazz singer, and used to sing jazz songs in the war," she said. I think it was an interesting war story to explore these women were so excited to get out and see new parts of the world they hadn't seen before, but then, they're faced with the reality of what they might see when they get there."īrown's own family also influenced her character. And when the war began, opportunities came for them that they didn't have before. "They had a musical duo that traveled the clubs and bars of the north of England. In real life, the two women would go on to perform for ENSA, which is kind of like the USO in the States. She was an Afro-Caribbean woman, and the two of them had this close friendship that some people might think 'Oh, that wouldn't have existed at that time.' But it did, and they bonded over the love of jazz music," Brown told T&C over the phone earlier this year. "When I got the role, our writer, Peter, sat down with me and he had some photographs of his grandmother during the war, and of her best friend, who was a lady called his Auntie Anna. Julia Brown as Lois Bennett and Yrsa Daley-Ward as Connie Knight Ben Blackallīowker's jazz-singing grandmother served as the direct inspiration for Lois (played in World on Fire by Julia Brown), and his Auntie Anna inspired Connie (played by Yrsa Daley-Ward). Notably, some characters like Kasia, Harry, and Yan weren't based on specific individuals, but the things they go through in the show represent the experiences of many at the start of the war. And I suppose this drama is partly to try and resist that and to reclaim these people's flesh and blood because I think that makes their heroism all the greater if you show them as flawed human beings." As that generation dies out, there's a kind of idealization of the war. "In the United Kingdom, it's our foundation myth because although most wars are more ambiguous, this one was particularly unambiguous. "I wanted to make a costume drama that didn't feel like a costume drama," writer Peter Bowker told Salonof the series. Storylines are based around real events like the bombing of Warsaw, the Nazi occupation of Paris, and the almost-miraculous evacuation of British troops at Dunkirk, but specific plot points are an invention, using elements of history to craft a compelling television narrative. Most of the plot of World on Fire-the Masterpiece PBS period drama that chronicles the beginning of WWII from multiple perspectives-is historical fiction.
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