English - Actress | December 15, 1981 -
I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.
Michelle Dockery
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I don't get recognized all the time, but it tends to happen more in America, and people are so lovely when they do.
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When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.
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I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously involving on many levels. But also, it's a new story. It's not like Dickens or Austen, where everyone knows the denouement.
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If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair.
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'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.
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Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful.
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I don't mind wearing a corset, it informs your posture, changes the way you move, you can't slouch.
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I get so excited about reading a new script.
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I can be so blown away by story lines.
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In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.
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'Downton Abbey' has become this huge thing, and I really enjoy the success of it, but I sometimes find myself on the outside looking in, which is sort of a healthy way to look at it so you don't get too caught up in it.
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