I had the most fantastic time filming 'Downton.'

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going to lie to you.

With big productions, you can sometimes get lost with the terminology and all the different departments.

I have an older brother and an older sister - and they had the time of their lives at university. They were at Newcastle and Edinburgh. Looking up to them the whole time, I wanted to go to university and live the life they were living, having a blast, and I didn't get in. I didn't get into any of the universities I wanted to go to.

Graduating at the age of 21 was a wonderful age to hopefully start a career.

You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.