“But then Michelle [Dockery, Brown Findlay’s co-star in Downton Abbey] just knew, in that very big sister way, that I had my eye on the other dress and just told the stylist that ‘Actually I think Jess really loves that one’. She knew I’d never say anything…”

“I hang out with Laura Carmichael and Jessica Brown-Findlay [who play her younger sisters] watching Mad Men on our laptops.”

“‘We all come from families of just girls, so there was that instant connection,’ she says. ‘We’re all obsessed with Beyonce, so to pass the time we break out into song, and did the Single Ladies dance in costume once. We’re working on the Run The World routine now.’”