“As regards “Downton Abbey,” I immediately knew that there was more to the young, icy Lady Mary Crawley than her haughtiness. When a friend of mine ventured in a phone conversation that Mary was “so wooden,” I snapped her head off. That’s because I saw Michelle Dockery, who plays Lady Mary, four years ago in London as Eliza Doolittle, in Shaw’s “Pygmalion” at the Old Vic. Ms. Dockery was the best Eliza I had ever seen on stage, investing that Cockney flower girl with a strength of will that made her eventual triumph over ‘enry ‘iggins inevitable. She was a natural aristocrat, waiting to blossom. That invincibility is also evident in her proud Mary, but there is also self-doubt and uncertainty that glimmer suddenly and unexpectedly. Ms. Dockery has adroitly flipped the emotional equation of her Eliza.” — Ben Brantley, NY Times Chief Theatre Critic 

fuckyeahladymaryseyebrows:

So I’m just to find a husband and get out of the way?

gnatkip:

Arrested Development papercraft: Banana Stand and Stair Car (+ printable patterns)