If Michelle Dockery’s latest role had been written in the last 12 months, the part might look like a lazily drawn cliche. The contrast between the young widow Lady Mary and the roles she has chosen since makes me wonder if she has deliberately set out to thwart any risk of being typecast, but Dockery shakes her head. We were engaged, and married at heart, and so I do consider myself a widow. “But I’ve just always loved playing characters. It will always be a part of you.”She adds quietly, “I know people who’ve had losses and they took time out immediately, but I don’t think I’d have been able to do that.

Source: The Guardian November 11, 2017 09:00 UTC