I Do Realise How Incredibly Lucky I

Julian Fellowes Doesn't Come To The Set, Except Maybe Once Every Six Weeks, For Whatever Reason. He's Not A Producer, In That Sense. But If You Write Him A One-line Question, He'll Write You A Three-page Answer.

For The Last Episode [of Downton Abbey], You'll Need Some Handkerchiefs. I Needed Handkerchiefs Reading It. It Wasn't Because It Necessarily Moved Me While Reading It, But It Was The Experience Of Reading It When I Realized It Was The Last Time I Was Ever Going To Be Reading One Of Those Scripts. That Was Quite Terminal.

You Have No Idea What's Going To Happen [in Downton Abbey] Until You Get The Script. We Roughly Knew A Couple Of The Key Points That Were Going To Happen, But When I Got The Last Episode, I Turned To The Last Page To Check That I Was Still Alive.

The Press Mainly Want To Destroy A Program By Revealing What's Coming Up. For Some Reason, Soaps Like Doing That.

At Home I Have A Tibetan Terrier. I'm Still Not Sure If He's A Genius Or Very Thick. It's A Fine Line.