To legions of viewers, Michelle Dockery is the prim and proper heiress Lady Mary Talbot from Downton Abbey, a persona she successfully shed to play Laurie Barber, the mother at the center of Defending Jacob, a crime drama miniseries. "I just loved the whole different genre for me.
I've never sort of done this type of genre before. I love crime genre, it was, it was really fun to be in something like this, which is quite different from anything else I've done.
And I loved being in Boston, I really enjoyed working there, such great people and just a really, really fun city to be in. So, it was a different experience, in some ways not any different.
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