- Business at the top, party on the bottom.
- I'm Michelle Dockery.
- I'm Laura Carmichael.
- And I'm Allen Leech.
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(upbeat music)
- [Michelle] So what's happening in this photo
is that we're all on the red carpet at the London premiere
having a lovely time. - Yeah
- Lovely time
- We're all laughing at something.
Who said something funny?
- I don't know. - I think it was Hugh. Yes.
- [Laura] Yes, he's certainly got a cheeky face.
- [Michelle] Yeah.
- [Allen] When we first started we would hum the theme tune
(all hum the theme tune)
Get us through the red carpets.
- Yeah
- It's a lovely picture
- Yeah it's cute - It is very nice
I didn't know you took that one
- It's a family picture, isn't it?
- Family - Family
- The Crawley family
- [Laura] Awwww
- [Michelle] This was my first day
- Oh yeah - on the film
and we were at Ealing Studios.
- Oh no you weren't
- No we weren't
We were at Shepperton - We were at Twickenham
- We were at Shepperton Studios
- We weren't at Twickenham either
- We weren't at Twickenham, where were we?
- We were at Shepperton Studios, they're all great studios
- Yeah
- [Michelle] And you can just see Jim in the background
- [Laura] Oh yeah, lovely!
- [Michelle] bit of soft focus on Jim there, and Phyllis.
- [Allen] It's a lovely shot, it's an excellent shot
- [Laura] Show it on the monitor.
- [Allen] well done.
- [Laura] Ooh! - [Michelle] Yeah
- [Allen] Oh that's a great shot!
- [Laura] Look at you! - [Michelle] Mmm butt
- [Allen] Looking cute.
(Michelle laughs)
- It's just... - A couple of years ago
- A cute picture of your butt - That's such a great photo
- Thank you
- Pink carpet, red dress
love it! - It's one of my favorite
dresses, it's actually the same color as what you're wearing
today Laura. - It's true
yes I'm a true citizen.
- And um - (sings) Ladies in Red
Look at that butt! - Look at that butt.
- [All] Awwww
- [Michelle] This is the Downton Abbey official picture with
Hugh and the dog, Teo - [Laura] A dog.
- He looks like he's trying to leave and Hugh's stopping him
- You can almost see the sausages in Hugh's pocket
- Hugh's pocket (laughs)
- To keep him there, yeah (laughs)
- Maybe... - There was one that was fired
- [Michelle] One of the dogs was fired, Aww
- Because he just wouldn't obey the commands
and I remember Hugh was always like "Why is he here?"
"Why is he here?" 'cause like he wouldn't sit
and then the minute they go Action! He's just gone
- And he's been unemployed since
- So funny (laughs)
- He has actually, he's changed career
He's gone into casting. (laughter)
- [Laura] Aww here's Allen! - [Michelle] Allen's Instagram
- [Allen] Yeah, that's me having tea on the Today show
they tried to making it kind of Downton setting.
They had tea bags, so it wasn't great for a start.
- Just pour the tea
- They had them still dangling out of the cup
- That's funny I should have made it about that
- We'd have loose tea in Downton.
Posh. - Of course
- And did you have a nice scone?
- I'm off carbs
- He's off carbs (laughs)
- [Michelle] You're looking very handsome in that photo.
- [Allen] Thank you darling.
- [Laura] You do look fab.
(all laugh)
- [Allen] Ah yes! this is where?
- [Laura] Oh my god, SAG's - [Allen] Was at the SAG
awards.
- Who's that on your shoulders?
- That is one of the publicity girls from The Imitation Game
we were all dancing and I was sitting at a different table
and then we won the SAG.
- Yeah, that's right, that was a fun night
- That was a great night and then so I got to go up
and I jokingly turned to JoFro
- [Michelle] Because James is in it
- Yeah - And I said can I come up?
And JoFro actually kind of went "oh, yeah."
Why did you pause?
- [Michelle] Awww - [Laura] Oh
- [Allen] Yeah, Hugh wasn't actually too happy
about this one
- So funny! - I put up a picture
because I took that on set when he was into
was it crocheting? Is that what he's doing?
- No, it's tapestry - No, it's like a needlepoint.
- Needlepoint tapestry. - Needlepoint work, yeah.
I put this up for his birthday and then he what's at me
and said "There goes my audition for Bond then"
- He was saying he wanted to have something new on set
to chill out in between times
and he took out this needlepoint, out of a plastic bag
and inside was a Polaroid continuity picture
from Notting Hill. So he'd been doing the same bit of
needlework since Notting Hill. - Since then?
- [Michelle] Aww look, that's in the back of the car, on set
I think I took that - Look at them, so cute
- Oh no, that's a selfie - That's a selfie
- One of these days when we're all in the cars together
we get so bored, because you have to keep going back
and reversing. So normally we will sit in there
and we'll send photos of whoever's in one car
to someone who's in another one.
- [Laura] Aww Vorders!
- [Michelle] That's Carol Vorderman
strangling Anna.
- [Laura] Yeah, so Carol Vorderman is a national treasure
back home. - One of the greatest minds
of all time. - Indeed a mathematician whizz
and sexy pinup. - [Allen] She came to set
and we all got very hot under the collar.
- [Laura] She loves and talked quite openly on her Twitter
about how she had the hots for Mr Bates, which is why she's
strangling Jo - [Allen] Strangling Anna
- [Laura] Oh! - [Michelle] Ooh!
- [Allen] Hello Kinky Boots - [Michelle] Kinky Boots
- [Laura] This is a picture from some press we did last week
where I was enjoying some boots.
- [Michelle And Allen] Business on the top
party on the bottom!
- Yep, there you go
- [Allen] Were they comfortable?
- [Laura] They were super comfortable!
- [Allen] That's good to know
- [Laura] I enjoyed being business on top
and party on the bottom, it's fun.
- That should be the name of your autobiography
- It is, it's out next year
- [All] Aww
- [Laura] That's a very early picture, yeah
- [Allen] Babies
- [Michelle] I think that's the first ever photo shoot
that we did on set. - [Laura] Yeah, it was.
- In the first series
babies! - [Laura] That was so special
(laughter)
- [Laura] So this is our producer, Chris Croucher
after the wrap party, we went back to his house
with a big gang to continue the party
and I couldn't be bothered to wear my high heels anymore
so I borrowed Chris's shoes so this is us swapping shoes.
- [All] Aww
- [Laura] This is our crew. - [Michelle] These are great.
So our stills photographer, he took pictures of the crew
on the last series and they were amazing, weren't they?
- Yeah - He had like a photobooth
set up to take pictures of all of our gang
So he printed them all out and they were all along
the hallway in Ealing. - In Ealing.
It was really cool. - and so nice
- And they were all up for it as well
which I don't think anyone expected
but everyone kind of wanted to document it as well.
- [Laura] Yeah
- [Michelle] Oh the Barker triplets!
- [Allen] Oh, have you seen this?
- [Laura] The Barker triplets!
- Doing the flossing.
- Which shows how long ago we filmed this
because that's not relevant anymore.
- That's not a thing anymore - Yeah
- Aww bless them
- [Allen] They were all at the premiere, weren't they?
- [Laura] They were
- [Allen] Which was really sweet.
- That's it for them
oh is that? That's it?
- That's it!
- Cool! - We've done it!