As Downton Abbey’s Mrs Bates, Joanne Froggatt was married to the trusted employee of the head of a wealthy dynasty. Ten years later, in MobLand, she is playing the wife of ‘fixer’ Harry (Tom Hardy), who works for well-heeled country gent Conrad Harrigan (former 007 Pierce Brosnan) and his wife Maeve (Helen Mirren).
But while Conrad likes to relax with a spot of fishing at his impressive rural residence, having a family connection to this unpredictable Irish mob boss is considerably more eventful – and dangerous – than life below stairs at the Crawleys' ancestral home!
