Bessie Carter Takes the Lead in ‘Outrageous,’ Narrating the Scandalous Mitford Sisters’ Story

“Outrageous” is introducing the Mitford sisters to new audiences, almost a century after they first made their mark on British society as young adults. Bessie Carter leads the series as Nancy Mitford, the oldest of the six Mitford sisters and the show’s narrator. The family was embedded in the fabric of London’s aristocratic society in the 1930s and beyond, and part of what became known as the “Bright Young Things,” a group that was young, rich, arty and prone to party.  ”The first episode is very much setting up the chaotic time that we are in, and these young sisters who were chaotic, young, hungry, passionate, teenagers into their early 20s,” says Carter. “The backdrop of that 1930s storm-brewing-energy, the cracks within the family, and the betrayals that start to take place — [the show] tracks it really well.” “Outrageous” is based on Mary Lovell’s biographic book “The Mitford Girls,” which Carter read in anticipation of working on the series. “Finding out this one family, just how infamous and scandalous they all became, was really incredible,” says the actress. “Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction, and it very much felt like that.” Several of the six sisters veered controversial: Diana, whose first husband was

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