On her close relationship with her family and two sisters: “There was this thing: don’t mess with the Dockery Sisters. I think when we’re together we can be quite, not intimidating, but quite a force.”
On keeping grounded despite success: ‘It’s very easy in this business to take things a little too seriously or yourself too seriously, and I grew up learning how to laugh at myself.”
On what makes her happy: “It is that very classic thing of being content with who you are and what you’re doing. I think that’s what I’ve learned – that if I’m content, then my outlook on everything is good.”
On Downton Abbey: “There’s a part of me that doesn’t want it to end, because I love it so much… and once it’s all over, I’m sure there will be a period when I feel slightly at a loss. It’s like this love affair that I have with my job.”
Julian Fellowes on Dockery’s interpretation of Lady Mary: Michelle ‘was able to demonstrate that curious mixture of cold exterior with the hint of deep feeling and sexual allure that for me, at least, takes one back to the giants of my youth: Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn, or Grace Kelly, the ultimate icon of fire wrapped in ice’.
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