NEW YORK, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Laura Carmichael says her Downton Abbey character Lady Edith is a completely different woman than she was when the franchise began 15 years ago.
Now streaming on Peacock and available on DVD Tuesday, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale wraps up the saga of the wealthy British Crawley family and the loyal servants who work at their country estate in the early 20th century.
"For Edith, she was probably the most traditional of the three daughters. Mary [Michelle Dockery] felt like she had to rebel against what was coming to her, in a way, and Sybil [Jessica Brown Findlay] was this free spirit, whereas Edith just kind of wanted to play by the rules and get married and find a suitable husband, but it wasn't her path," Carmichael, 39, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.
"In that undoing, I think it really was the making of her and she had to find a different purpose in her life, and really discover who she was and her strengths and I think she had been the sort of quiet observer, so it made a lot of sense for her to be a writer and that just led to a lot of adventures and heartache, but she really did find a happy ending."
Edith and Mary are often seen clashing throughout six seasons of the TV show and two movies, although they always manage to pull it together when the family is in trouble.
