ITV's new Jane Austen adaptation Sanditon is just one day away from making its debut (at the same time as Peaky Blinders returns on BBC One, which is brave) and it promises to be a very saucy affair.
Of course, this has upset people who prefer their period dramas to be 'prim and proper' affairs.
In response to these critics, some of the drama's stars have explained to Digital Spy that they believe that folks who lived in ye olde times wouldn't have spent all their time going to balls and clutching their pearls.
Rather, they definitely spent a lot of time getting down and dirty.
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"When something isn't spoken about openly and has to be hidden; sex, arranging to meet someone in a field, those things become more exciting. People want them more, people write them in their diaries," actress Lucy Sacofsky, who plays Clara Brereton in the series, said.
"And there's always going to be people who don't like it, die hard Jane Austen fans. But I think if you are open-minded and commit to the idea of it, it's all completely believable."
"We're allowed, I hope, to carry it on, the naughtiness and the fun. And make it relevant," added Charlotte Spencer (who plays Esther Denham).
"People weren't boring back then. There was nothing to do. So of course they're going to drink and be merry and have a laugh and go carriage racing. They would have done these things.
"They're still real people, and love and sex and relationships, they transcend. That's life. And we’ve always been the same. And I hope people enjoy the fact that we could carry this story on."
Sanditon begins this Sunday (August 25) at 9pm on ITV.
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