Moviefone Editorial

Tag: michelle-dockery

  • ‘Good Behavior’ Canceled by TNT After 2 Seasons

    ‘Good Behavior’ Canceled by TNT After 2 Seasons

    Good Behavior's Juan Diego Botto and Michelle Dockery
    TNT

    TNT has pulled the plug on “Good Behavior.”

    The drama series has officially been canceled, according to its creator, Chad Hodge. He announced the disappointing news via Instagram on Tuesday, Nov. 6, writing that it “will not return for a third season on TNT.”

    Hodge also let fans know that he’d had a lot more ideas left. Specifically, he said he could write about con artist Letty (Michelle Dockery) and hitman Javier (Juan Diego Botto) “for 500 episodes.”

    https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp2gO0nnp7_/

    Hodge didn’t say anything about whether or not there’s any possibility of the show finding a home on a new network, but it sounds like he’d be up for it. As you can see in his post, he highlighted that he’s “more proud of creating [Letty and Javier’s] story than anything else in [his] career thus far.”

    Needless to say, there are fans who are disappointed with the show’s abrupt end. The hashtag #savegoodbehavior emerged on Twitter in May, and it has returned in the wake of Hodge’s announcement.

    https://twitter.com/danstvns/status/1059907149042728963

    We’ll see if a streamer or network swoops in to save it. “Good Behavior” didn’t have strong Live+same day ratings, as  Deadline pointed out, but it did fare better in delayed viewing and on digital platforms.

    [via: Chad Hodge/Instagram; Deadline]

  • ‘Godless’ First Photos Tease Netflix’s Seven-Part Western

    GodlessLady Mary isn’t taking any guff in the first photos from Netflix’s new limited original series, “Godless.”

    Netflix just shared the first photos from the seven-part series, which was created by “Out of Sight” duo Steven Soderbergh and Scott Frank, and set in 1800s New Mexico. It will be ready for streaming on November 22.

    “Godless” — written and directed by “Logan” co-writer Scott Frank — follows infamous criminal Frank Griffin (Jeff Daniels), whose gang of outlaws wants revenge against Roy Goode (Jack O’Connell), a “son-like protege who betrayed the brotherhood.” Roy seeks refuge in a New Mexico mining town mostly run by women. That’s where he meets widow and fellow outcast Alice Fletcher (Michelle Dockery, going for the opposite of “Downton Abbey”), and that’s also where there will be a showdown with Frank Griffin and his men.

    Sam Waterston, Merritt Wever, Scoot McNairy, and Kayli Carter are also featured in Netflix’s first-look photos:

    Godless
    Jeff Daniels as Frank Griffin

    GodlessKayli Carter as Sadie Rose and Michelle Dockery as Alice Fletcher

    GodlessSam Waterston as Marshall John Cook

    GodlessScoot McNairy as Bill McNue

    GodlessJack O’Connell as Roy Goode and Michelle Dockery as Alice Fletcher

    GodlessJack O’Connell as Roy Goode

    GodlessMerritt Wever and Tess Frazer

    GodlessMichelle Dockery as Alice Fletcher

    “Godless” will be ready for streaming on Netflix starting Nov. 22.

    [Via: EW]

    Want more stuff like this? Like us on Facebook.

  • Michelle Dockery Embraces Being Bad on ‘Good Behavior’

    If you think that sometimes Downton Abbey,” just wait until you see how she steps right up to the edge in “Good Behavior.”

    For her new TNT drama, Dockery steps directly from the lavish estate of early 20th Century British aristocracy into the modern world, leaving Lady Mary’s fragile veneer of civility behind and embracing darker impulses. As Letty, she’s a career con artist and recovering meth addict fresh out of prison and looking to rebuild her life with her 10-year-old son while still pursuing her illicit craft, and when she tries to access her more altruistic nature and help avert the contract killing of a stranger, it leads her to become entangled with an enigmatic hitman (Jaun Diego Botto), who has the potential to be her undoing … or perhaps her salvation.

    It’s a wholly different star turn for Dockery, who discussed why being bad feels so good with a small group of journalists.

    On how the new series helped her move forward from “Downton Abbey”:

    Michelle Dockery: I was very fortunate to go from “Downton Abbey” on to this quite quickly. I like to keep working. They’re two very, very different characters. So it was very different and very freeing to play someone new.

    On whether she was looking for a role far removed from Lady Mary:

    No. It just happened to come along, so I was very lucky to find something that was quite different.

    There are parallels with those women: Letty is a very colorful, complex character. She’s much like Lady Mary was. I always have a place in my heart for that character, and I think that you kind of take your characters with you as you go on in your career. Yeah, she’s someone I love to play.

    On whether she expects that she’ll play Lady Mary again one day:

    We’ll see. I’m open to the idea of the film. Yeah, I’m looking forward to seeing if that happens.

    On playing characters that can be unlikable on occasion:

    I mean, in my experience, they’re the best of characters to play! I don’t think they need to be likable to like them in that sense. I think some of the best characters don’t always behave well. The relationship between them is so interesting, and it is a messed up love story and a very unconventional love story, and they recognize so much in one another. In some ways, it’s like a meeting of minds because they are so similar in many ways.

    I think Letty finds it hard to sort of exist as normal people do. I think she she gets bored very, very easily, and the dressing up part of it and becoming another character within the character is also the addiction. It’s the high, you know, following people and being someone else to escape the pain or who she really is. And that has been really fun to play. It’s character within character, which is a dream for an actor. I have four different wigs. They all have different names.

    On Letty’s ever-changing array of looks, accents, and, of course, those wigs:

    Well, it really varies on the situation that Letty’s in. With the first wig, there’s a business-like quality to that character. She’s very into the hotel. She wants to just get the job done, so it’s like that sort of toughness to that one. Whereas the blonde one, that’s a contrast because she’s a little bit more fluttery, and she’s flirting with Javier.

    So it’s really fun playing those characters-within-a-character, and getting to change the accent. Actually, we decided from the very beginning that Letty was very good at that, good at accents and good at changing her persona.

    And a Southern accent is much easier for a British actor than a general American — I think so, anyway.

    On the research discovery that helped shape her performance:

    I found this great documentary on Netflix called “The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne,” which is a documentary about a thief who is 86 years old, and she’s still at it. She, throughout her life, has put on these personas and pretended to be other people in order to go about her thieving.

    On her experience in America while shooting on location:

    I love spending time here! It’s been a real change for me. It’s been, obviously, a very interesting time to be here with the election coming up. It’s something that I felt was always at the forefront for me, because of course being away from home, you can take your eye off the ball a little bit because you’re not at home, and the politics here has been something that I’ve been reading about more than I normally would.

    It’s lovely to be in a climate like this for a change. Not as much rain, and seeing different states. Spent time in North Carolina, and now in New Mexico. So I like spending time here. It’s good to change it up.

    On what she’s discovered about her career as an actor:

    What I’ve learned, I guess, is to not expect … and to try and live in the moment as much as possible, because in a career like acting, you never really know where you’re going to be.

    And that’s what’s so exciting about it, actually, is that you end up in places and with people you would never expect to meet. That’s what’s so lovely about the journey as an actor.

    “Good Behavior” premieres November 15 on TNT.

  • The ‘Downton Abbey’ Cast Shares Their Thoughts on the Show’s End

    Although “Downton Abbey’s” storyline is set decades ago in the early years of the 20th Century, the show’s pot-boiling plotlines have for legions of devoted fans felt as urgent as if they were happening today. And never have they felt as urgent as now, when the British-produced series airs its final episode in the U.S. after bringing the series to a close in its home country on Christmas Day 2015 after six enthusiastically received seasons.

    Did Mary choose wisely by following her heart to marry the dashing racecar driver Henry? Can Edith ever find a lasting love – and does she really need one? Will Mrs. Patmore’s new inn survive its initial reputation as a house of ill repute? Can Mr. Barrow find an estate of his own to serve? Will the grand estate and all its beloved denizens continue to survive and thrive as the world evolves around it? And will the Dowager Countess Violet Crawley, as she typically does, have the last word?

    Although they were sworn to uphold the secrecy of the show’s final moments for those U.S. viewers who’ve managed to avoid spoilers thus far, members of the “Downton Abbey” cast and creative team shared their thoughts on bringing the phenomenally successful series to a close, the ways in which it touched their lives, and whether there’s a future for more tales from the aristocracy of the past.
    Michelle Dockery (Lady Mary Crawley):

    “It feels right that Season 6 wraps it up, but of course, at the same time, it’s saying goodbye to it, it’s just strange. It’s beginning to sink in now. When we had the last shooting day at Highclere, that was huge -– and I wasn’t quite expecting it. I thought I’d be able to walk away. I guess I just didn’t expect to be that emotional. And Laura [Carmichael] and I walked hand in hand through the house one last time, and we were just in bits! So it feels like an end of an era. And it’s just been joyous.

    “The timing felt right. I think collectively everyone felt this was the right time… I think if we’d have kept going, it would be maybe tricky to kind of find somewhere to finish. We’ve made friends for life. That’s what I’ll take away with me is the experience and the people that I’ve got to know. We’re like a family, and it’s not just the cast. It’s the crew as well. You become so close because you’re pretty much living day in, day out, on that set, and of course, you share so much with one another, so that’s what I’ll take away with me.”

    Laura Carmichael (Lady Edith Crawley):

    “Michelle and I are criers -– like, consistently. We’re weepy girls. We just love a weep. And it has been huge, and we have grown up on this show in a way that we think is maybe different to some of the others actors have had experiences like this before. We started when we were in our 20s, so it’s a big change in my life growing up on the job.

    “I think it would be crappy if you felt it was just the same as any episode. It feels like a special when there are satisfying elements to it. But as far as, I think Julian half-imagines or hopes, there’s just no way you’ll stop thinking about these characters until they’re all dead and gone.”

    Joanne Froggatt (Anna Bates):

    “Not all the loose ends are tied up. For “Downton Abbey,” that would be strange and unrealistic. But I feel like we leave all of the characters in a place that’s OK. It’s all right. We can leave that there for a bit and it’s fine.

    “I absolutely wouldn’t rule out [a reunion film or special]. I think actually, it would be a lovely thing. To be able to sort of have a break, do different things, and then come back and have a sort of reunion almost. It would be incredibly fun. And from a selfish point of view, it would be great fun to do.”

    Elizabeth McGovern (Countess Cora Crowley):

    “I feel wary of the idea of a movie, but I’m not completely closed to the idea because I think it works so well in this context of a TV show. And I would be very frightened of tainting what we’ve done, what we’ve worked so hard to achieve. So I don’t know: I wouldn’t say that I wouldn’t do one, but you’d have to conceive it in a way that makes sense for it to be a feature film, not just another episode that you splash onto a screen. I mean, I, myself, don’t have the imagination to be able to envision what that would be like.

    “In some ways, it’s a character that’s too close to myself to really be able to say [what I love about her]. The only difference between is that I think she’s more self-effacing than I am. I mean, I’m obviously someone who is an actress in pursuit of a career, and I can’t imagine Cora in a million years would ever indulge herself in that way. So maybe that’s what I like about her. But it also drives me crazy because she’s so self-effacing.”

    Gareth Naeme (Executive Producer):

    “When you make one of those big shows of all time, that is game-changing. I’ve spent so much of my life trying to get anyone to take any interest in what I was doing. As a producer, you’re hustling. You’re trying to persuade people… When you’re in this situation, you’re actually batting people away. Because everyone loves it, everyone wants to talk about it. But I suppose it gives you confidence that your ideas can work, and that people will back your ideas.

    “And it gives you confidence that sometimes -– just sometimes -– it can work. That sometimes, a hit show can just get through, and people will fall in love with it. And then you get to that happy place where none of the networks or studios tell me what to do. They don’t second-guess. They don’t give me instructions because they just know it works. And they back it. And that very rarely happens.”

    Downton AbbeySeries Finale Airs Sunday, March 6, 2016 on MASTERPIECE on PBS Shown from left to right: Laura Carmichael as Lady Edith, Elizabeth McGovern as Cora, Countess of Grantham, Matthew Goode as Henry Talbot, Allen Leech as Tom Branson, Zac/Oliver Barker as Master George, and Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary (C) Nick Briggs/Carnival Film & Television Limited 2015 for MASTERPIECE This image may be used only in the direct promotion of MASTERPIECE CLASSIC. No other rights are granted. All rights are reserved. Editorial use only. USE ON THIRD PARTY SITES SUCH AS FACEBOOK AND TWITTER IS NOT ALLOWED. Hugh Bonneville (Robert Crawley, the 7th Earl of Grantham):

    “I will miss it. I will always look on it with huge affection and gratitude because not only this bunch of people, but the experience as a whole has been transformative, really. It really has. But it’s time to say goodbye to it.

    “A particular memory I have is of standing out on the lawn with Maggie Smith one day when there was the ash cloud over Iceland, this volcanic eruption, so there were no flights or three weeks. And so there were no vapor trails in the sky. It was silent. And it was a beautiful sunny day with a clear sky at the castle. And she said, ‘This is what it would have been like.’

    “And you sort of realize, of course, we take noise and background noise and vapor trails for granted. And she was absolutely right. It was the first time, probably ever, in my life time I’d looked up and seen no vapor trails. That was a memorable moment.”

    %Slideshow-358642%

  • Best of Late Night TV: ‘Sesame Street’ Meets ‘Game of Thrones,’ Bernie Sanders’s Whisper Challenge

    If you’re like us and value your sleep, you probably nodded off into your Ambien dreamland before the party started on post-prime time TV. Don’t worry; we’ve got you covered. Here’s the best of what happened last night on late night.

    Starting in January, “Sesame Street” is moving to HBO for first-run episodes. How will a family friendly show like that fit in on a network like HBO? “Jimmy Kimmel Live” decided to do a test run Tuesday night, taking dialogue from “Game of Thrones” (the Hound chicken scene!) and setting it to a scene with Muppets. Grover looks a little too natural dropping those f-bombs. Just saying. It’s probably not his first time.

    Here’s a returning favorite: “Santa’s Lap or Flu Shot?” Jimmy Kimmel — always fond of sad kid stories — showed photos of crying children and the audience had to guess whether the child was on Santa’s lap or getting a flu shot.

    “The Tonight Show” was feeling the Bern Tuesday night, with Sen. Bernie Sanders sitting next to Jimmy Fallon. They played a little Whisper Challenge and Jimmy asked Bernie if he’s more concerned with beating Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. He said he’s looking forward to beating Donald Trump.
    Love this: Conan O’Brien calls foul on Chris D’Elia’s manspreading during their interview. “Close your legs!” Heh. Well, he is on “Undateable” for a reason.
    Also love this: Here’s the legend Andy Richter sharing his Gift Guide For Guys. The suggestions are a BIT pricey, but don’t miss the random plot twist with details on getting your testicles injured in the state of Illinois. Thanks for the tip, Andy!
    This is also random, but see what you think of it. It’s John Cena reflecting on life and meeting his “inner child” Troye Sivan:
    It’s hard to believe “Downton Abbey” is ending, but it is. Sniff. Here’s Michelle Dockery (Lady Mary) talking about the premiere of the final season and the awkward times she has been recognized in public. Seth Meyers could relate.
    Marion Cotillard was on “The Late Show” to promote “Macbeth,” but also illustrate to Stephen Colbert that most things sound much more intriguing when said in French. So much is bleeped out!
    Last but not least, here’s James Corden recalling the time he bumped into Taraji P. Henson before they both auditioned for the role of Cookie on “Empire.” Looks like the role went to the right person.

    Want more stuff like this? Like us on Facebook.

    %Slideshow-346402%

  • The First Photos From ‘Downton Abbey’s’ Final Season Are Here

    downton abbey, downton abbey season 6It’s the beginning of the end for “Downton Abbey,” as the beloved British series prepares to sign off after its upcoming sixth season. Now, PBS (which airs the show here in the U.S.) has released the first images from the new season, which are sure to make fans misty about the looming series finale.

    The first photo (glimpsed in the image above and seen in full below) is the traditional full-cast picture for which “Downton” has become known, showcasing all the characters posing in front of sprawling the titular estate. And while there are plenty of smiling faces featured, there’s no doubt plenty of drama waiting to unfold throughout the season.

    As for the other images, they don’t tell us much, either; they’re mostly standard, posed photos, or feature a few characters staring off into the distance. Still, the shot of Maggie Smith‘s Dowager Countess gazing wistfully into a mirror is sure to stir some emotions — after all, that’s probably how a lot of “Downton” fans will look, too, as they come to terms with the show’s end.

    Check out some of the photos below (the rest are available here). The final season of “Downton Abbey” just finished filming; it’s set to premiere in the U.S. on January 3.
    downton abbey, downton abbey season 6
    downton abbey, downton abbey season 6
    downton abbey, downton abbey season 6[via: Downton Abbey, PBS]

    Photo credit: Downton Abbey, Masterpiece

    %Slideshow-286415%

  • Michelle Dockery Shares Sweet Tributes on Last Day Filming ‘Downton Abbey’

    It’s official: Lady Mary has insulted Lady Edith for the last time, we just have to wait five months to see it. “Downton Abbey” Season 6 won’t air in the U.S. until January, but Michelle Dockery just shared some photos on Instagram to celebrate (and mourn) the end of filming.

    “Today is the last day of what has been the most glorious 6 years of my life,” Michelle wrote on August 10, in a photo with the twins who play her son. “I am so grateful to have been part of this family. Thank you to each and every one of you out there for watching… @downtonabbey_official #LastDaysOfDownton #finalcountdown.”

    Here are more memories from Michelle:

    Bye, bye bedroom #LastDaysOfDownton #marysbedroom

    A photo posted by Michelle Dockery (@theladydockers) on

    Reunited. @thatdanstevens I’ve missed this face #bafta #LastDaysOfDownton #matthewandmary

    A photo posted by Michelle Dockery (@theladydockers) on

    “Downton Abbey” Season 6 premieres Sunday, January 3, 2016 on PBS. Here are more details on the final season. We’re gonna miss you, Crawley family!

    Want more stuff like this? Like us on Facebook.
    %Slideshow-310036%