ON SET WITH Downton Abbey

Booth shares the shoot that almost never was

“When I went and did a Downton Abbey shoot, The Mail had gone to great effort to get me onto the set. I shot a few pictures, and then they wrapped for the day after months of preparation, and I was left with just a handful of pictures. At that point, what do you do? Do you go or do you fight? So, I went to the PR and said, “Look, I’m not going to deliver,” so I really, really appealed to her empathy and sensitivity, and she really helped me and she went away and she talked to the actors and she brought several of them back. That could have gone very wrong, but the thing is, it’s how you react to a mistake.”