Friday, December 23, 2011

Tan ban for the Downton sisters: Show's stars reveal how they have to cover up on holiday (Mail On Line)

By Paul Revoir
Last updated at 8:14 AM on 23rd December 2011

In the Edwardian era, the upper classes preferred to look pale and interesting.

So spare a thought for the cast of Downton Abbey who have revealed that in order to maintain the show’s period detail, they are not allowed to get healthy-looking tans.

Actresses Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael and Jessica Brown Findlay, who play the elegant Crawley sisters, bemoan their lack of tans on tonight’s Jonathan Ross show.


Having fun: The three Downton Abbey sisters loosened up and joined in the jokes when they appeared on Jonathan Ross's chat show

Having fun: The three Downton Abbey sisters loosened up and joined in the jokes when they appeared on Jonathan Ross's chat show
Having fun: The three Downton Abbey sisters loosened up and joined in the jokes when they appeared on Jonathan Ross's chat show
Roaring with laughter: Jessica Brown Findlay, Laura Carmichael and Michelle Dockery on Ross's sofa
Roaring with laughter: Jessica Brown Findlay, Laura Carmichael and Michelle Dockery on Ross's sofa

Looking totally different from the prim and proper ladies they play on Downton, the trio tell Ross how they struggle to maintain their pallid complexions during their holidays.

Miss Carmichael, 25, complains: ‘We can’t get a sun tan!’
They also reveal that the male members of the cast are worse than the women at sticking to the rules.
 
Miss Dockery, 30, said that Jim Carter who plays Carson the butler and Hugh Bonneville, who plays her father, the Earl of Grantham, ‘came back from holiday with really strong tans’.

Miss Carmichael added: ‘Hugh sent us a photograph when he was on holiday. He was reading the script covered in a big scarf and hat, yet he came back nice and bronzed!’
Prim and proper: On the show, with its attention to Edwardian detail and pale complexions
Prim and proper: On the show, with its attention to Edwardian detail and pale complexions
Joking around: The girls dress up for Jonathan Ross on his chat show

Earlier this week Miss Carmichael admitted that her character is a ‘bitch’ and that her mother agrees that she is ‘awful’.

She told the ITV documentary Downton Abbey: Behind The Drama: ‘I told my family. I said this part, this sister, she is not very nice. She is a bit of a bitch, Edith. And after the first three episodes or so my mum said to me, “I don’t know what you are talking about – she is lovely, she is misunderstood”. Then by the end she was like, “No you’re right – she is awful, she is a bitch”.’

In the documentary Michelle Dockery admitted when her character Lady Mary is first introduced to Matthew Crawley, the man she is in love with, she is ‘a cow’.

ITV is hoping Downton Abbey will end the BBC’s traditional dominance of Christmas Day viewing with a two-hour special.



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