Michelle Dockery on Dan Stevens Leaving . PBS. RELATED . So when it came to the point of them deciding to take the show further, we all had a choice.
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Yeah, initially, I was sad to hear that he was leaving. But looking back, in hindsight, what it’s done is opened up an opportunity for the writing to really shift and for .
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Matthew’s death affects so many other characters. We miss him. I spent three years with Dan, carrying that Matthew- and- Mary storyline.
I really loved working with him. So he is missed. TVLINE . We knew very far in advance. We also knew that it would be very finite because, of course, Matthew being the heir to Downton Abbey, there was no other storyline really to write other than that he had to die some way. Even if he left or disappeared or decided that it wasn’t working with him and Mary . So it had to be that brutal.
TVLINE ? Reading it on paper is one thing. I knew it was coming, and I hadn’t told them. They knew that Dan was leaving.
It had got out that he was going. But they were really shocked. And so was I. The way it was filmed, it all happened so quickly. It really shocked people and wasn’t what they were expecting on Christmas Day. Did you go through that struggle, too? Definitely. I went through a phase where I worried about where it was going.
But now I see, since we filmed . The fourth . She’s starting a new life. In some ways, there are similarities to .
That task won’t be easy. The Season 6 premiere’s 9.9 million total viewers in Nielsen live-plus same.
There’s various suitors that are being thrown in her direction. But she’s very reluctant to go through with any of it because, of course, she can’t stop thinking about Matthew. He’s still very much a part of her thoughts.
She’ll never get over it. You don’t ever get over losing someone. It’s learning to deal with it and move on. He’s a hard one to replace.
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TVLINE . Was it difficult to go back to work without him? It was strange going back, similar to when Jessica Brown Findlay . You get so used to working all day long together and waking up at those early hours together and sharing cars home together. It was just strange not having him around. We spent three years together. And I loved playing that story and that arc with the characters, with Dan. TVLINE . How does he compare to Matthew?
The sisters knew him when we were growing up, and we haven’t seen him since then. A party is organized at the house, and he is invited to it. He’s just a different character. And there’s other potential suitors, as well. It’s not just him. There’s a character called Blake, played by Julian Ovenden.
And Evelyn Napier (played by Brendan Patricks) comes back, as well. He was the one who brought the Turkish diplomat along.
That was lovely to play scenes with Brendan again because we haven’t seen him since Season 1. They’re very different.
TVLine . And this year, we have a few new characters coming in. There’s a real energy about . It’s very much the ’2. It’s very much the bright, young things.
Rose, the cousin, and Edith very much represent this new wave of fashion, of dining in restaurants with a man, without being accompanied. There’s a real shift in the periods, more so than .
It feels closer to where we are today. It’s a bit more modern. That’s what will be appealing about .
There’s a sense of change, again.
Downton Abbey's Elizabeth Mc. Govern: Why I turned down marriage to Sean Penn and begged on my knees to play Downton's mistress. By. Louise Gannon for Mail. Online. Published. EDT, 1. 4 September 2. I feel very out of place then,' said Elizabeth Mc.
Govern, who plays Lady Cora on Downton Abbey. Are you ready for the return of Downton- mania?
The frenzied craze for the costume drama to end all costume dramas is set to shoot right off the scale when series four launches next weekend. And even the normally unflappable Royals are getting in a lather over the imminent return of Lady Mary, Carson, the Earl of Grantham and his porcelain- skinned wife, Lady Cora, the Countess, played by the stunning American actress Elizabeth Mc. Govern. Except, unlike normal Downton fans, when the Royals crave a hit of their favourite show, they can simply turn up at Highclere Castle – the stately home where it is filmed – to meet the stars. They asked lots of questions, stayed to watch some of the filming. I had a big chat with her mum, too.’ On her immediate success: 'Things happened so fast for me.
I was 1. 8, 1. 9, 2. Elizabeth. The Middletons weren’t the only famous fans to put in an appearance during filming.
Mc. Govern recalls watching a group of senior White House aides strolling open- mouthed across the perfectly manicured lawns one afternoon, and she personally welcomed Hollywood stars Ashton Kutcher and his girlfriend Mila Kunis on to the set. Ashton and Mila were very sweet and really interested in everything.’ Downton super- fans are truly fanatical, says Mc. Govern, and pull the craziest stunts to indulge their passion. Michelle Obama didn’t want to wait until the third series returned to U.
S. And Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood told Mc. Govern’s on- screen husband, Hugh Bonneville, with whom the Stones guitarist has struck up a friendship, that the band would call a halt to rehearsals for their huge comeback tour early on Sundays so they could catch the show every week. It helps that Jagger’s a fan, too. Chris Colfer, star of the hit U. S. Mc. Govern laughs when I tell her about the rapper P Diddy, who took his own unlikely Downton obsession one step further by posting a spoof video of himself on You.
Tube playing alongside several of the show’s best- known characters. The way an American acts, the way they look at a script is different. We feel our way into something,' said Elizabeth.
The massive success of the show is not something Mc. Govern, 5. 2, imagined. It’s ITV’s most successful period drama ever, winning Emmys in America, spawning a Hollywood career for Dan Stevens who – as Matthew Crawley – was killed in a car crash in the last series. The Downton cast are extremely close. It’s an amazing thing to work on a show that is so successful; that has an unbelievable effect on the cast.
But on set we have ways of keeping ourselves amused. He does a flamboyant fashion designer act, Michelle does a great LA actress on the red carpet. Then Maggie (Smith) has all her anecdotes, which are amazing.’I meet Mc. Govern in the restaurant of a West London studio, and over cappuccino she casually gives me a great Downton scoop: as the Grantham family move into the Roaring Twenties, the women are finally granted their freedom . We can breathe again! The dresses are a lot more comfortable.’ I push Mc.
Govern for more revelations, but she remains cagey about what we can expect – Downton stars are kept on a famously tight leash when it comes to revealing forthcoming script details. They are great together,' said Elizabeth. Self- confessed Twitter addict Dan Stevens blurted some details of a Christmas plot, only to be hauled over the coals by the notoriously secretive executives. Mc. Govern rolls her eyes but won’t be drawn further. In the new series, Hollywood returns to Downton in the form of Shirley Mac.
Laine (who plays Cora’s mother) and in a new character, her playboy brother, Harold, the actor Paul Giamatti (Sideways, The Truman Show). They are great together. But for me it is wonderful to have American actors there,’ says Mc. Govern. She pauses: . The way an American acts, the way they look at a script is different. We feel our way into something; a scene in an American show will take 2. I’m so very conscious of this.
When it was over he looked shocked. He said, “He just looked at the script and then boom, he delivered. It was like there’s some on/off button they have that we don’t.
I mean, how do they do that?” I was standing there thinking, “Yes! Finally someone else gets what it’s like for me.” ’Elizabeth grew up in LA and became an actress contrary to family expectations. Success was instant, overwhelming and huge.
Her first film, at 1. Ordinary People, with Timothy Hutton. It won four Oscars. Like Cora – whom she loves (. She doesn’t make dramas, she just tries to make everything right for everyone else’) – Mc. Govern is an American in England married to film director and producer Simon Curtis (My Week With Marilyn, The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice). Her eldest daughter, Matilda, is reading English at Oxford and her youngest, Grace, is 1.
Her life has been about gently breaking rules. Her parents are American academics. Her mother was a teacher, her father a professor, her great- grandfather a famous diplomat. As revealed in the Mail on Sunday last month, Mc. Govern plays and sings . She grew up in LA and became an actress contrary to family expectations. Success was instant, overwhelming and huge.
Her first film, at 1. Ordinary People, with Donald Sutherland and Timothy Hutton. It won four Oscars. Her second, Ragtime, earned her an Oscar nomination. Her third, Once Upon A Time In America, pitched her against Robert De Niro as the object of his sexual obsession. The same year – 1.
Racing With The Moon with Sean Penn. Penn fell madly in love with her, they got engaged – everything was pointing to a Hollywood superstar future. So she split from Penn and left LA to study theatre in New York. In 1. 98. 4, Elizabeth's third film, Once Upon A Time In America, pitched her against Robert De Niro as the object of his sexual obsession. You can’t help asking why. Surely if she had stayed in Hollywood, her life would have been very different. I was 1. 8, 1. 9, 2.
I would walk into a room and people would agree with everything I said; everything I did was brilliant. I found the whole thing strange.'I was painfully aware I didn’t know most of the time what the hell I was doing. I never really bought into that whole lifestyle.’ So Penn married Madonna, while Mc. Govern met British producer Curtis and left America. She laughs: . Career success is a crap- shoot. I guess if anything that has always been my modus operandi .
She loves the humour, the architecture, the people. I feel very out of place then.’When the role of Lady Cora came up, she begged (. The actor fell madly in love with her and they got engaged.. But she split from Penn and left LA to study theatre in New York .
I love working with him. We have a sort of shorthand, we know what the other is thinking. He’s really funny but he doesn’t actually seem aware of that.’Mc. Govern’s rapport with her co- stars could lead to a very different kind of collaboration than the ones she has shared with Bonneville over the years. There is talk of a Downton Supergroup, featuring Leech, Dockery and Mc.
Govern, all gifted musicians. Dockery is a trained jazz singer and talented guitarist; Leech is a folk/rock guitarist who played in a band called the Fluid Druids at university. Mc. Govern says there is a chance they might come together for a special performance. We happen to have a lot of musicians in the cast but as yet we’ve never formalised anything. It would be interesting and definitely very different, I wouldn’t know which way we’d go musically but it’s a fun idea.’ Dockery has already performed on stage with Sadie And The Hotheads.
She’s amazing. She has a totally natural ability. You don’t get the chance on Downton to play much. Elizabeth plays and sings 'mum music' in her band Sadie And The Hot Heads, but she never went to a rock concert as a teenager'A few of the cast bring in guitars but the pace gets faster and faster so it’s pretty much an outside occupation. Lovely to share a stage with Michelle though, it’s definitely something special.’She ponders the question of her own rebellious spirit.
She didn’t form the group until she was in her early 4. But when it goes well and people are watching you and singing . It’s like heroin. It’s totally addictive.
I know it’s not expected for a woman like me, but maybe that’s the point. I didn’t do this when I was young, now I know exactly how it should be done and I know exactly what I want to say.’The final twist of irony on Mc. Govern’s life is her return to Hollywood with Downton. She – and the rest of the cast – are the toast of LA (the show has three nominations at this year’s Emmys).
You couldn’t have planned anything like that but I couldn’t be happier.’ .
Downton Abbey Wiki . PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK! It begins in pre- World War I England, right after the sinking of the RMS Titanic. It also follows the lives of the servants on the estate, such as butler Mr Carson, head housekeeper Mrs Hughes, lady's maid Anna, and head valet Mr Bates. The second series focuses on the events leading through the second half of World War I and the close aftermath. The third series follows turmoil surrounding the decline in the fortunes of the estate and the changes in the new decade.
The fourth series concerns Lady Mary's attempts to overcome her grief at the death of her husband at the end of the third series. It also features the first depiction of a . The fifth season sees marital relations between Lord and Lady Grantham strained by an art historian, and Charles Blake and Lord Gillingham's continued pursuits of Lady Mary.
It aired on September 2. UK. In the US, it will air on January 3rd, 2. News about the running of Downton Hospital puts Violet on the warpath, while those below stairs find social changes are putting their futures in jeopardy and Daisy's good intentions at the Mallerton House auction have disastrous consequences. Final series of the costume drama, starring Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville and Michelle Dockery.