The actress, 68, who was recently made a dame in the King’s Birthday Honours, won the best actress in a musical gong at the 2016 Olivier Awards for her role as Momma Rose in Jonathan Kent’s 2015 production. Speaking to British Vogue, the Bafta award-winner reflected on her marriage to Downton Abbey star Carter, 75, and what “success” means to her. “Success is a really tricky word, and it should be spelled with a very small S,” she said.
“I think it poisons people. I feel Jim and I have made our lives work as a marriage within this business, and we take our life more seriously than our jobs. “Of course, we both take (the job) very seriously.
But you go, what’s the most important thing here? That I play another part? Or that we go on a very nice holiday, or that we have that time in the garden, that we have our life? “But we can afford to say that – I don’t mean financially, but with the work we’ve done and are lucky enough to still be doing. “I think we know how fortunate we are.” She added: “I think when we got married, we did say, look, there’s no point if we’re going to be apart.
“Early on, Jim did a lot more telly and films than I was doing in the ’80s. “If he was going to go to an exotic location, we’d go, ‘Right, well, I can come out that weekend.’ “So we made that work.
Or there’s two jobs,” she mimes looking at a diary, “I can go and do that. Do you need to do that? OK? Lovely.” Speaking about the impact of doin.
