I did reflect that we had reached a moment in time when nobody was the least bit surprised, but we were delighted that he'd finally come clean so that he could present himself as he was, rather than living a lie. "I'm reminded of the Ian Thorpe interview last year, where he said for the first time that he was gay. Parkinson, 80, registered another transformation as he prepared Parky's Favourite Australians, a two-part series based on 35 years of interviews, which Channel Ten launches on Thursday. The attention to detail is extraordinary." But it lets you look and listen in a slightly different way, and I've enjoyed that."ĭownie has done Poirot, Silent Witness, Father Brown, Silk, Waking the Dead, New Tricks, and Inspector Morse, but Downton Abbey is the biggest budget series she's worked on in British television: "It's this huge juggernaut. Being an Australian living in the UK for all these years, the longer you're here, the more English you sound, the more displaced sometimes you feel. "I loved doing that because it was the sense of always being a bit outside. "I've done quite a bit of Shakespeare, and I was sort of liberated when I stopped thinking about it as a very English thing, because he wrote such muscular women," she says. They are Jewish and even though they're incredibly wealthy, it's from a different place within the society at the time."ĭownie found being an outsider useful when she started to do Shakespeare on stage in London and Stratford. My son Atticus is a friend of Lady Rose and the family are invited to Downton by Lady Rose. We are invited to Downton but it is not necessarily plain sailing. They're very, very moneyed English people who have a title. "There is something slightly 'other', even about the Sinderbys. The Downton Abbey juggernaut airs on Thursday.
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