If you’re not sure who Joanne Froggatt is, then you obviously don’t watch one of Britain’s most popular drama series of the past few years – Downton Abbey!
The actress is featured in today’s issue of You magazine, which those of you with a newspaper subscription to The Daily Mail will have received today.
The interviewer is hoping to get a few spoilers out of Froggatt, however she’s not able to divulge any information about the show. “I just feel a little bit guilty that I can’t tell anyone anything,” she says. “I daren’t – it’s more than my life’s worth! I don’t tell anybody apart from my husband.”
As well as Downton, Froggatt is starring opposite James McAvoy in his new film Filth. He plays a drug-addicted Scottish policeman, whilst she plays the young widow of someone who has been killed... and McAvoy takes a bit of a shine to her.
“Those scenes did seem powerful when we were doing them. James is lovely, very down to earth, very professional – he treats everybody exactly the same. James is a good lesson in how to deal with success,” she tells the magazine.
Whilst she may only have just become a household name, she’s been in the game for a long time (remember her from Corrie all those years ago?) and thinks she has the fame game figured out. “I remember when I was doing Coronation Street when I was 16 and in the green room there was this article that someone had stuck on the wall. At the end it said something like, ‘The reality is that fame doesn’t change you, it just gives you the confidence to be who you really are.’ That’s stuck with me ever since. So I think if you are a bit of a diva to start with you’re always going to be a bit of a diva. And fame’s going to bring it out. But otherwise it just gives you confidence to go, ‘Oh, that’s good, I’m going to carry on doing what I’m doing.’ For me it’s working, and I feel good about that.’”
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Posted by Marianne Kaskela.