Downton’s Joanna insists on chivalry

EQUALITY is going too far for Downton Abbey actress Joanna David. The 71-yearold, married to The Day Of The Jackal star Edward Fox, refuses to conform to changing social mores.

‘I love chivalry. What the young do, I don’t care, quite frankly,’ she tells me. ‘I like it when a man holds a door open for a woman.’

Referring to actresses such as Emma Watson, who insist on being called actors, she adds: ‘I’m the only person who, when asked: “Who are you, what is your name and what do you do?” calls myself an actress — because I am. I’m not an actor.

‘you don’t say: here is the best actor for the leading role of Emmeline Pankhurst. I have no time for it.’