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The upcoming third and last Downton Abbey film can pay “significant” tribute to the late Dame Maggie Smith, in keeping with government producer Gareth Neame.
Smith, who died in September on the age of 89, performed Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham within the ITV interval drama starting from 2010.
Her character died on the finish of the final movie within the sequence, 2022’s Downton Abbey: A New Period.
In a brand new interview with TV Line, Neame stated: “The truth that Dame Maggie herself has now handed away since that point, I do assume, has given an actual added poignancy to a narrative that we’d have deliberate anyway.
“The lack of the Dowager, it now feels much more important that you just see actors enjoying characters mourning the household matriarch.
“However I additionally see actors mourning the matriarch of the present, and it feels extra real and extra significant.”
Neame went on to say that Smith’s demise marked “the tip of an period” and added that “we are going to by no means see the like of Dame Maggie Smith ever once more.”
He stated the forged and crew of Downton Abbey’s “large respect for her … will come throughout in within the subsequent film.”
In June, Common Photos introduced that Downton Abbey 3 might be launched on September 12, 2025. A brand new title is predicted to be confirmed earlier than the discharge.
Hugh Bonneville will reprise his position as Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham, alongside Elizabeth McGovern, who stars as his on-screen spouse Woman Cora, and Michelle Dockery and Laura Carmichael, who play the Crawleys’ daughters Woman Mary and Woman Edith.
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Different returning stars embrace Jim Carter, Phyllis Logan, Robert James-Collier and Joanne Froggatt, Allen Leech, Penelope Wilton and Brendan Coyle.
They are going to be joined by Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti, who beforehand appeared within the present’s 2013 Christmas particular as Cora’s brother, together with Joely Richardson, Alessandro Nivola, Simon Russell Beale and Arty Froushan.
Dockery shared her pleasure at reuniting along with her castmates in a video shared to mark the announcement.
“It feels wonderful and emotional,” she stated. “It’s fantastic all to be again collectively once more. You come again collectively and you’re feeling like no time has handed in any respect.”
The film might be written by sequence creator Julian Fellowes and might be directed by Simon Curtis, who beforehand helmed Downton Abbey: A New Period.
Downton Abbey ran for six seasons on ITV, airing from 2010 to 2015. The primary spin-off movie was launched in 2019, adopted by A New Period in 2022.
