After following the trials and tribulations of the Crawley family, through happiness and sorrow, the new series’ intriguingly bittersweet trailer skilfully creates a sense of anticipation for the series ahead.
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She continued: “Then of course the fashion world caught on to the styles in the show very early on”.
The two-time Oscar victor also said that while there were many similarities between her personality and her on-screen alter-ego Violet Crawley’s, she can’t take credit for her character’s acid tongue. “It’s a question of whether or not she can fully embrace London life”. The answer? “I thought you’d never ask!”
Michelle Dockery tells us about a awful scandal that threatens Lady Mary, while Samantha Bond’s character, Lady Rosamund, will be doing all she can to protect Edith, who herself has a shameful secret. “There are also some slightly delicate negotiations about under what terms they are getting married… whether it will be a “full” marriage, so to speak”, he teased.
“He does reappear in the new series”, revealed actress Michelle Dockery. Suitors have come and gone but no one has been quite right.
Romance is also in the air for Michelle Dockery’s widower Lady Mary, as she falls for racing auto driver Henry Talbot (Matthew Goode), who came into the show at the end of last season. Across six series, we’ve seen the introduction of electricity and gramophones and fridges; falling numbers of footmen; and struggles over how to modernise the land.
“That’s when Robert begins to realise that the writing is on the wall for estates like Downton“, he said. You adapt or you die, and I think Robert – [the] dinosaur that he has been at times – ultimately, whether he’s dragged, kicking and screaming by Mary or by his mother or by Cora, does adapt, does see that change is necessary.
It has already been revealed that cuts will be made “below stairs”.
Hugh, who plays Lord Grantham/Robert, the head of the family, spoke about the feeling of Season 6 while on a panel at the Television Critics Association Summer Tour in Beverly Hills, last month.
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The 51-year-old actor has opened up about receiving his final script for the ITV period drama and admitted that while he thinks Julian Fellowes has ended it spectacularly, he was so emotional about his final words as Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham that anything would have moved him to tears.
