A movie would mean extending the story even more for the show’s cast, who were actually under the impression that the British drama was going to end after its fifth season.
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The Rose Parade is held yearly on New Yr’s Day in Pasadena, California. Hugh Bonneville, a cast member in the PBS television series “Downton Abbey“, poses for a portrait during the 2015 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Saturday, August 1, 2015, i… Talk of “favorites” and “lasts” were abundant.
“We celebrated when we finished in the dining room where we had a team photo”, said actor Hugh Bonneville, who plays Robert Crawley.
Laura Carmichael, who plays Lady Edith, said it was odd saying good-bye to Highclere, which played the Crawley home for six seasons.
“I’ll miss the clothes”, sighed Michelle Dockery, who got to wear very nice ones, playing Lady Mary.
Bonneville, meanwhile, was surprised the cast even got another go-round. They’ve taken me and all of us to the top of the mountain.
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“We didn’t want to go home”, Ms. Dockery said.
Wait, hey guys, what about a movie? Inevitably, there comes a time when all shows should end, and “Downton” is no exception. And Neame didn’t rule it out. “It is definitely something that we’re contemplating. We don’t have a script or plan as yet”.
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Downton Abbey’s sixth season premieres in January.
Neame said the last season will bring back some faces from the past, but the focus of the final season is to wrap up story lines for the main cast. “Deceased characters continue to be referenced”.
By ending the TV drama several years shy of the 1929 stock market crash, producer Gareth Neame said rich territory is left to be mined if a film is made.
-Elizabeth McGovern, who plays matriarch Cora Crawley, said the serenity of being wrapped up in the non-modern world: “I’ll miss the peace of it. In today’s world, we’re so inundated with information”.
The 34-year-old flaunted her unbelievable figure in the slinky number which showed off her curves in all the right places.
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Joanne Froggatt, aka Anna Bates, countered that the series made her realize “how lucky she is to be living in this time compared to “the lack of opportunity for women … unless you were born in the aristocracy” in the time Downton was set”.
