“Too many people would make money, and too many people were longing to do it again,” she expressed.
“I had a gun at my head and was made lady of the house even though I was begging to be the cook, so I went onto it in a very bad temper and behaved quite badly.”
She relayed how she had heard Julian Fellows had done the same thing with Downton Abbey and knew “it was a lost cause” when they got ahead building sets.
Atkins branded the thought of joining the revival as “deadly”, however after reconsidering her reluctance, she joined the cast.
source: express.co.uk