Following Henry Talbot’s absence from the most recent Downton Abbey film, Matthew Goode has confirmed he gained’t be within the third installment both.
The Emmy nominee not too long ago defined why he didn’t seem in Downton Abbey: A New Period (2022) after portraying Girl Mary Crawley’s (Michelle Dockery) love curiosity within the 2019 function continuation of the British historic drama collection, which ran for six seasons from 2010 to 2015 on ITV and PBS.
“I used to be unavailable for the second as a result of I used to be doing The Supply. [For the third], I used to be taking pictures [Netflix’s Department Q],” he advised Radio Occasions. “However I additionally buggered my knee, and I needed to have an operation. That takes weeks to recover from, so I used to be by no means going to have the ability to do it. And let’s face it, he was edging in direction of turning into a little bit of a moist lettuce. So possibly it’s an excellent factor.”
Imelda Staunton, who performed Queen Mary’s lady-in-waiting Girl Maud Bagshaw within the first two movies, beforehand confirmed {that a} third and closing installment is within the works.
“There would be the closing movie – there you go,” she stated on BBC Radio 2 final March. The film filmed at Highclere Fort over the summer time and can premiere Sept. 12 in theaters.
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After Maggie Smith, who performed Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, died at age 89 in September, govt producer Gareth Neame defined that the third movie was made with the forged and creator’s “enormous respect” for the late Oscar winner. The character beforehand died in A New Period.
“The truth that Dame Maggie herself has now handed away since that point, I do suppose, has given an actual added poignancy to a narrative that we might have deliberate anyway,” stated Neame. “The lack of the Dowager, it now feels much more important that you just see actors taking part in characters mourning the household matriarch. However I additionally see actors mourning the matriarch of the present, and it feels extra real and extra significant.”
