![]() ![]() But there’s nothing like a stoical demeanour and the narrative requirements of a sequel to help one defy terminal illness. Was anyone going to stop her? Towards the end of the first movie Lady Violet (Smith) was making dark noises about seeing a doctor ‘in London’ (crumbs) and was giving the impression that her Dowaging days were rapidly coming to an end. Mrs Patmore hive assemble! Is Maggie Smith’s Dowager Countess back? Now, judging by the trailer, the pair are tying the knot in a big Downton-style wedding.Īlso heading back to Dow-Abs? Imelda Staunton, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle, Kevin Doyle, Joanne Froggatt, Robert James-Collier, Phyllis Logan, Harry Hadden-Paton, Imelda Staunton, Penelope Wilton and Lesley Nicol. He and maid Lucy Smith (Tuppence Middleton) had a surreptitious snog in the first movie before slow dancing on the terrace of Downton in a romantic epilogue that would have brought tears to the eyes of anyone who remembered poor Tom’s many tragedies. Photograph: Ben Blackall / © 2021 Focus Features, LLC Mrs Patmore in actionĭefinitely not going it alone is Allen Leach’s Irish estate manager and friend of the family, Tom Branson. Either way, Lady Mary seems to be going it alone in this one – albeit with her devoted sister, Lady Edith (Laura Carmichael), for company. There’s no sign of Matthew Goode in either the trailer or on the cast list – perhaps his character, the narratively non-committal Henry Talbot, is off on his travels again. Surprisingly, Maggie Smith also returns as Crawley’s venomously-tongued mater, Lady Violet Crawley, the dowager countess – but more on that later. The big guns are all back for this one, including Hugh Bonneville as Robert Crawley and Elizabeth McGovern as his American wife Cora – the Michael and Kay Corleone of Downton – with Michelle Dockery back as the couple’s sophisticated daughter Lady Mary Talbot. ![]()
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