傲放《唐顿庄园》的“新英伦玫瑰”|唐顿庄园

　　Mary in 1)Armani 　　Michelle Dockery is sitting in an 2)overthe-top hotel restaurant in the Hampshire countryside, so chosen for its 3)proximity to Highclere Castle—where Downton Abbey is filmed.
　　She sips a glass of red wine and muses on the endless 4)imbibing of the 5)aristocratic Crawley family, “Sometimes during filming I’ll think: ‘No, I’m not going to have a brandy because I just finished my glass of wine at the table.’” After all, how is Mary supposed to be 6)imperious when she’s 7)inebriated? “Exactly!”
　　As might be expected by anyone in modern society there is not a whole lot of Lady Mary in Dockery, who plays the 8)haughty heroine of the obsessed-over period drama. She does have a superb speaking voice and a posture that would make a mother proud.
　　Dockery, 30, and following a few years spent in television dramas, was cast in Downton after her winning turn as Eliza Doolittle in 9)Pygmalion on London’s West End.
　　“Until then I’d played much more vulnerable parts, but I remember coming out of the audition, and Dan Stevens was in the waiting room. I said, ‘Who are you up for?’ and he said, “Matthew.” She laughs, “I walked out and thought, ‘Oh that could work.’”
　　She is often asked why she believes Downton is so celebrated, especially in the U.S. “I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but Downton isn’t,” she says. “This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it’s like a soap written by a poet.” She’s right. The writing, by Gosford Park scribe Julian Fellowes, and the 10)cinematography are so elegant that Downton’s 11)campier qualities (the dreamy Turk dying in 12)flagrante delicto; the noble 13)valet Bates in jail for murder; Lady Sybil running off with the 14)chauffeur) wash right over you.
　　“I used to get quite defensive of people saying it’s soaplike”, she says, “but it kind of is.”
　　She had finished Downton’s third season, which premiered in the U.S. in January. Before that Dockery will appear on the big screen in Anna Karenina with Keira Knightley in November, and in the fall she begins filming Restless, a TV adaptation of the 15)William Boyd novel.
　　
　　Dockery thinks Mary would be very modern if she lived today. “She’d be in charge, her own boss. She’d have married very well and maybe had kids, but I don’t think she’d be particularly maternal.”She laughs, “She’d definitely have help.” As for modern Mary’s style: “Armani: simple, clean.” 　　
　　穿阿玛尼的玛丽
　　米歇尔·道克瑞正坐在汉普郡郊外一间极度奢华的酒店餐厅里，之所以选择这里进行采访，是因为此地距离《唐顿庄园》的拍摄地海科利尔城堡非常近。
　　她呷着一杯红酒，然后沉浸在有关克劳利这个贵族家庭的点点滴滴当中，“在拍摄的期间，有时我会想：‘不，我不能喝白兰地，因为我刚在饭桌上喝了红酒。’”毕竟，一个醉醺醺的玛丽如何表现得专横傲慢？“的确如此！”
　　在现代社会，大家都能够想象，在道克瑞身上，不可能有太多玛丽女士的影子，尽管她在这部复古时代大戏中扮演矜娇自大的女主角。不过，她的确拥有让母亲引以为豪的尊贵声线和美好身段。
　　米歇尔·道克瑞，今年30岁，在电视圈打滚了几年，当其在伦敦西区剧院上映的《卖花女》中因扮演伊莉莎·杜利特尔而转型成功后，便加入了《唐顿》剧组。
　　“在扮演玛丽之前，我演过太多脆弱无助的角色了，但我记得从《唐顿》试镜出来，当时丹·史蒂文斯正在休息室。我说：‘你来试镜哪个角色？’他答道：‘马修（《唐顿》的男主角）。’”她笑道：“我走出来后想，‘啊，那也不赖嘛。’”
　　她经常被问及为什么她深信《唐顿》会大受欢迎，尤其是在美国。“我认为一些年代剧会比较脱离现状，但《唐顿》没有，”她说，“这样说会比较，嗯，自命不凡，但有人说，《唐顿》就像是诗人创作的肥皂剧。”她说得对。该剧的编剧是《高斯福德庄园》的金牌编剧朱利安·费罗斯，而且《唐顿》的拍摄极其讲究，连原本夸张俗套的情节也优雅得让人难以抗拒：迷人的土耳其大使在鱼水欢时当场暴毙；为人正直高尚的贴身男仆贝茨被指谋杀而锒铛入狱；西比尔小姐与司机私奔出逃。
　　“过去，当人们评价‘像肥皂一样’时，我会心生反感，”她说，“但这部剧确有几分如此。”
　　道克瑞已经完成了《唐顿》第三季的拍摄，该季将于明年一月在美国首播。在《唐顿》播出前，她与凯拉·奈特莉联袂出演的大银幕作品《安娜·卡列尼娜》将会在十一月上映；今年秋天，她开始拍摄电视剧《永无宁日》，该剧改编自威廉·博伊德的同名小说。
　　道克瑞认为，要是玛丽活在今天，她会是一名非常时髦的女性。“她肯定会主宰自己的人生，自己就是老大。她会嫁得非常好，可能会有孩子，不过我认为她不是那种特别有母性的人。”她笑着说道，“她肯定需要保姆帮忙的。”说到时髦玛丽的时尚品味：“阿玛尼：简单，干净。”
　　
　　英伦玫瑰，这是对英国女演员的一个特定称谓，获此殊荣的美女不少——凯拉·奈特莉、凯里·穆里根、艾玛·沃特森等等，但如今风头最盛的要数米歇尔·道克瑞。《唐顿庄园》里面那个傲娇的玛丽女士被道克瑞诠释得十分到位。那是一个你咋看讨厌，深看却欣赏的人物角色，加上《唐顿庄园》精良的制作和大气的故事走向，道克瑞的声名鹊起本就在意料之中。
　　更可喜的是，她同为时尚圈的新晋“插班生”，无论表演还是衣着品味，评论界都不吝啬给予小红花。她遵循着每一位“英伦玫瑰”的发迹史，至于未来会如何，应该不会太差，只要《唐顿》还没落幕，道克瑞就能一直乘着这股东风继续红火下去。当然这名气也不会因其落幕而就此终止——她将会得到更多的表演机会和关注——希望“玛丽女士”不会是道克瑞人生中唯一值得称道的角色，就像一位女演员所说的那样：“我相信最好的角色永远在下一部戏。”
　　——Mac
　　
　　Lady of Essex
　　While Lady Mary Crawley was born into a 16)pampered life of privilege and wealth, Essex girl Michelle comes from infinitely humbler beginnings.
　　The daughter of an Irish truck driver turned surveyor and a mother who delivers meals on wheels, she grew up in the unremarkable suburb of Chadwell Heath in Essex. The youngest of three girls, Michelle had her first taste of acting at the tender, young age of five.
　　“I think my parents knew before I did that I was going to be an actress because I was 17)doing impressions of Margaret Thatcher at the age of four,” she has said.
　　A year later, she was attending the Finch Stage School, then based at the bottom of her street in St. Chad’s church hall.
　　She remained there for more than 10 years, often working after-school and weekend jobs to pay her way, including a 18)stint as a waitress in a pie and mash shop. Her dad insisted she and her two sisters work for their pocket money and the cash helped pay for drama lessons. 　　“I knew very young, early on that that was what I wanted to do. I wasn’t an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn’t concentrate,” she recalls.
　　But it was a three-week stint at the National Youth Theatre that really went on to 19)cement her ambition to become an actress.
　　“I walked in and it was like winning the lottery; I knew this was what I wanted to do,”she said.
　　She took a year off to 20)save up—working in a newspaper recruitment office—to fund her way through a three-year degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. On graduating, Michelle joined the prestigious National Theatre on London’s South Bank.
　　“I spent 18 months there, doing what was very much like an apprenticeship. I started as an understudy and 21)worked my way up,” she says.
　　She made her professional debut in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, but in 2008, she landed the plum role of Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, during which she was seen by a Downton producer.
　　She was praised by the critics and earned herself a Best Newcomer award, but almost immediately afterwards was 22)slated for her performance as Ophelia to John Simm’s Hamlet at the Sheffield Crucible Theatre.
　　
　　“One review was so awful that I thought it was 23)indelibly etched on my soul, but now I can’t actually recall a word—I’ve erased it from my memory in an act of 24)self-preservation,”she said.
　　Away from the cameras, Michelle isn’t giving much away. Her best friend is mum-oftwo Simone Coombs, who she met at school when she was five. The pair can get through nine cups of tea during a 25)mammoth gossip session.
　　“It brings me straight back down to earth and ensures that I never become lost in the celebrity side of things.”
　　Refreshingly down-to-earth Michelle has revealed how the whole cast occasionally bursts into a 26)rendition of the 27)Petula Clark hit“Downtown”—and it’s clear it’s things like that which make her utterly dedicated to her trade.
　　“That’s why I love acting, because you tap into parts of yourself that you wouldn’t necessarily need to in real life. I’m quite surprised at how out of control I can be on stage, because actually I find I like to be in control in life. It’s quite freeing, really.”
　　Acting is all she has ever wanted to do and her global success hasn’t changed a thing.
　　“I just want a really varied career and to keep going”, she said, “This is it until I can’t walk any more or until I start forgetting my lines.” 　　Unlike Lady Mary, it looks as if Michelle Dockery is going to get exactly what she wants.
　　埃塞克斯的淑女
　　如果说玛丽·克劳利女士是含着“金钥匙”出生，集万千宠爱于一身，那么，埃塞克斯女孩米歇尔则来自一个背景相当朴素的家庭。
　　她的父亲原来是一名爱尔兰卡车司机，然后转行当测量员，母亲则是从事上门送餐服务。她成长于埃塞克斯郡查德威尔西斯一个不起眼的小郊区。作为三个女儿中的老幺，米歇尔在稚嫩年幼的五岁时便初尝表演滋味。
　　“我觉得父母比我先知晓我将会走上演艺道路，因为四岁的时候，我就会模仿撒切尔夫人了，”她说。
　　一年后，她进入了芬奇舞台学校，然后在街道尽头的圣查德教堂礼堂扎根下来。
　　这一待就是十多年，她常常在放学和周末去打工来支付生活费，这些工作包括曾在一家馅饼店当兼职侍应。她的父亲坚持她和两个姐姐要自己去赚零用钱，而这些钱恰好可以用来贴补表演课的学费。
　　“我很小的时候就知道我想当演员。我不是读书的材料，念书时就讨厌数学和自然科学。我就是集中不了精神。”她回忆道。
　　然而，在英国国家青年剧团的短短三周时间却实实在在地坚定了她想要成为一位演员的雄心抱负。
　　“我踏入剧团，感觉就像是中了六合彩；我知道这就是我想做的事儿，”她说。
　　她辍学一年去存钱——为一家报社的招聘部工作——以积攒在伦敦盖德霍尔音乐戏剧学院修学三年所需的费用。毕业的时候，米歇尔加入了享有盛名的位于伦敦南岸公园的国家剧院。
　　“我在那儿呆了一年半，做些类似学徒干的那些事情。起初我只是一个替补演员，然后开始慢慢成长，”她说。
　　她的演员处女秀献给了菲利普·普尔曼的《黑暗物质》，不过在2008年，她在《卖花女》中出演了伊莉莎·杜利特尔这一重要角色——正是在这期间，《唐顿》的一名制作人注意到了她。
　　她的表演获得评论界的赞誉，还为自己赢得了一个最佳新人奖，但之后，她在约翰·西姆执导、于谢菲尔德克鲁斯堡剧院上映的《哈姆雷特》中饰演奥菲莉娅，表现却受到猛烈批评。
　　“其中有一条评论非常恶毒，深深地烙在了我的灵魂里，但现在我一个字都想不起来——出于自我保护的本能，我把它从我的记忆里删除了。”
　　远离了镁光灯，米歇尔并不是一个会太多谈论自己私人生活的人。她最好的朋友叫西蒙妮·库伯斯——两个孩子的妈妈，那是她五岁时在学校认识的。这两位好姐妹可以东拉西扯聊上九杯茶的时间。
　　“这让我回归到实实在在的生活里，保证我不会在镁光灯之中迷失了自我。”
　　清新又脚踏实地的米歇尔透露整个剧组时不时会忽然一同唱起佩图拉·克拉克的名曲《在郊外》——很明显，就是这样的好氛围让她心无旁骛地专注自己的表演。
　　“这就是我热爱表演的原因，因为你可以挖掘出在真实生活中你无需触碰到的那部分自我。我对自己能在舞台上那般失控挺惊讶的，因为现实生活中我是一个自律的人。这是一个释放的过程，真的。”
　　表演是她一直以来梦寐以求的，而她在全球范围内的声名鹊起并没有改变任何一点。
　　“我只想要一个多变的职业，然后坚持下去，”她说，“演员就是我爱的职业，我会一直坚持直到我走不动了或是开始忘记台词。”
　　与她扮演的玛丽女士不一样，米歇尔·道克瑞似乎将会得偿所愿。
　　
　　

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