Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern admits that after finding fame as a teenager she 'wanted and appreciated' sexual experiences with older men in the film industry

Downton Abbey prima Elizabeth McGovern has said aft she recovered stardom arsenic a 19-year-old she appreciated older movie manufacture men wanting enactment - and she urged pistillate actors to present 'own' that portion of their lives.

McGovern, who plays Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham successful Downton, said she recovered the galore intersexual experiences during her twenties, aft she starred successful Robert Redford directed Ordinary People, 'educational' and wanted them.

She said: 'I deliberation backmost connected that full time. Of people determination were tons of intersexual experiences.

'And present this benignant of caller mode that radical person started to look again astatine enactment practices has been precise absorbing for me, due to the fact that erstwhile I deliberation backmost connected my aboriginal nonrecreational beingness I person to accidental and instrumentality work for the information that I was arsenic funny successful having intersexual experiences arsenic the guys.'

'And I person to accidental I wanted it and appreciated it, and sometimes I deliberation that women should ain that a spot successful their travel professionally.

'I tin lone talk for myself.

'For me, I had what I see to beryllium precise acquisition experiences with antithetic radical on that mode during that decade, and it was precise bully for me.

'I truly needed it.'

She said it was 'part of the process for sure' of increasing up.

Asked connected the Rosebud podcast if determination had been immoderate unhappy experiences, she said: 'No.'

The actor, nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her show successful Ragtime a twelvemonth aft Ordinary People, said portion caller opportunities were opening up for her she was inactive 'derailed' by losing interaction with her precocious schoolhouse friends.

The American-born actor, present 63, who lives successful London with her British manager hubby Simon Curtis, added connected the Rosebud podcast: 

'Right aft I graduated precocious schoolhouse (came) what I consciousness successful retrospect is benignant of a cataclysmic crook of events, which was for 1 crushed oregon different I was abruptly for a abbreviated play of clip a 'movie star'.

'I was successful precocious schoolhouse and we were each reasoning astir graduating and what we were going to bash and wherever we were going to go.'

'I was auditioning for play schools, and they were looking for kids to beryllium successful a movie that was being formed called Ordinary People that Robert Redford was directing.

'That footwear started a vocation that led to maine being successful manager Milos Forman's Ragtime the adjacent year, and truthful it felt similar determination was a snowball vocation happening.

'I accidental cataclysmic due to the fact that it truly somewhat derailed me. I abruptly felt precise separated from each the friendships I'd formed successful precocious school.

'I did person a benignant of fellow - that was a benignant of carnal awakening. And really a truly beauteous feline that I'm sometimes successful interaction with still.'

Elizabeth is inactive moving hard implicit 40 years aft archetypal uncovering fame. Next up for the histrion is the caller TV amusement The Talamasca, which she is presently shooting in Manchester.

The play serves arsenic portion of AMC's Anne Rice Immortal Universe alongside Interview With The Vampire and Mayfair Witches. 

Inspired by the works of novelist Anne Rice, The Talamasca volition travel the secretive nine of the aforesaid name, who are the 'men and women liable for tracking and containing the witches, vampires and different creatures scattered astir the globe.'   

Elizabeth is also working connected filming the 3rd Downton Abbey movie with her co-stars Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville and Laura Carmichael.

It volition person been a hard clip for the formed successful caller months aft the nonaccomplishment of histrion Maggie Smith who played the iconic Violet Crawley successful the series. 

The afloat interrogation tin beryllium heard connected today's Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth podcast disposable connected each large platforms