Actress Michelle Dockery, known as Lady Mary in Downton Abbey, covers the February issue of Tatler Magazine. In her interview, she opened up about getting used to the fame that came with being on Downton Abbey.
Michelle about the impact Downton Abbey had on her career: “I feel grateful. I’d achieved a lot by the time I was 30. I was in one of the biggest shows in the world. It’s very rare something like that happens. I certainly wasn’t expecting it. But it’s put me in a position now where I can slow down. This business, it never really stops. You do something, you promote it, you’re on to the next job. I’m at a point where I’m learning: I need to find ways to switch off. Unwind.”
On her latest role in “The Gentlemen”: “It came quite naturally, ”she says of dropping the plummy accent she honed on Downton. “I grew up in Essex. There’s a way of talking I grew up around. And finally being able to play a character whose accent has an Essex sound, as mine does – I loved that. I’ve been playing well-spoken for so long, to do something closer to my roots was so much fun.”
Read the entire interview with Michelle here.
View below images of Michelle Dockery taken for Tatler Magazine (courtesy of Jack Waterlot & Tatler Magazine).
