and I. It was just [us] for a few days in an office in Shoreditch and it was a very nice way to start off. She's just delightful so we had a very nice time together. It was nowhere near Highclere [Castle], which is the house where they make it, so that sense of responsibility was absent. If my first scene had been sitting round the dinner table with the whole lot, I think that might have been quite hair-raising! Filmoria: Sunday night's episode revealed some rather scandalous news about your character, Michael Gregson -- that he is, in fact, married to a woman in a lunatic asylum. How did you react when you first read that in the script? CE: I thought, great! Because that says to me that that storyline needs to be seen through. It needs to be an issue! I love stuff like that, gothic, Bront-esque. Although she is an asylum, not the attic. I think having an attic would be far more gothic so that's a shame [laughs]. Filmoria: The storyline between Gregson and Lady Edith has been left open-ended. Will we be seeing you in the Christmas episode? CE: I've no idea! No idea at all! It could end with, you know, a phone call and she could be saying "Well thank you very much Mr Gregson, I'm really not interested." Then that's it! That's the end of my character. It's looking quite good... I mean I think that situation probably needs to be