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“It’s about two characters who are reaching for something,” reveals composer Nathan Barr about the limited series “A Very British Scandal.” The three-episode drama recounts the marriage and bitter divorce between Ian and Margaret Campbell, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, played by Paul Bettany and Claire Foy. Barr’s score has been nominated for an Emmy, his fifth career nomination. He previously won for composing the main title music of the Netflix limited series “Hollywood.” Check out our exclusive video interview with Barr above.

The composer’s inspiration came from his belief that both Ian and Margaret were looking for things that were completely separate from any kind of love. For Ian, it was the desire for Margaret’s money, while Margaret was attracted to the idea of being the wife of a duke. Barr says that those elements informed the melodies he crafted. “The score was really...

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“A bad chemistry experiment” is how Claire Foy describes the doomed relationship between the real-life Duke and Duchess of Argyll (aka Ian and Margaret Campbell) at the center of Prime Video’s enthralling limited series A Very British Scandal.

Foy and her co-star Paul Bettany gathered for an in-person edition of THR Presents, powered by Vision Media, and did a deep dive into the stormy marriage — which ended in one of the most vicious divorce cases in British history — depicted so unflinchingly in showrunner Sarah Phelps’s three-parter. Foy plays Margaret, the Duchess, who became famous in the 1930s among high-society Britain, and already had a reputation for living life to the full way before she met and then married the Duke in 1951. Of Margaret’s public image, Foy says, “I had a slight problem with [her] in the sense that the stories you...

Claire Foy will tell you she’s played her fair share of historical figures on both the big and small screens. From her Emmy and SAG Award-winning performance as Queen Elizabeth II in “The Crown” to Janet Armstrong in “First Man” to, more recently, Emily Richardson-Wain in “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain.” But the challenge of portraying the utterly complex Margaret Campbell, the Duchess of Argyll, in “A Very British Scandal” another matter entirely

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The daughter of a successful businessman, Campbell married Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll (Paul Bettany) in 1951.

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Claire Foy was very close to turning down the role of Margaret Campbell on Amazon Prime’s “A Very British Scandal,” the three-part limited series chronicling the marriage and very public divorce between Margaret and Ian Campbell, the 11th Duke of Argyll (Paul Bettany). Foy, who also served as an executive producer on this series, wondered if the role of a posh upper class duchess during the mid 20th century bore too similar resemblance to Queen Elizabeth on “The Crown,” which earned the actress two Emmys.

However, as the actress explains in an exclusive interview with Gold Derby (watch above), any worries about perceived similarities with her Emmy-winning role vanished as soon as she learned more about Margaret. “They were obviously incredibly different people and incredibly different characters with incredibly different behavior,” explains Foy. “So I hoped that the audience would go along with that.”

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So Evil My Love

Blu ray

Kino Lorber

1948 / 1.33:1 / 112 min.

Starring Ray Milland, Ann Todd, Geraldine Fitzgerald

Cinematography by Mutz Greenbaum

Directed by Lewis Allen

In 1944 Ray Milland starred in The Uninvited, the story of an orphan plagued by the vengeful spirit of her mother. The film remains a shivery classic of familial strife but contrary to its inhospitable title, Milland never looked so at home. But then the actor had always appeared haunted. Even in his comedies—and he made a lot them—Milland delivered his lines like a condemned man, as if he understood the tragic implications of a pratfall. There was an advantage to his angst—in It Happens Every Spring, one of the most lighthearted farces of the 40’s, Milland’s sourpuss keeps the movie from being so frothy that it floats away. Savvy directors tapped into that grave quality more than once; he was a...