LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) – The Crawley household are again, this time with a movie that takes place at their famed “Downton Abbey” residence in addition to the French Riviera within the second film stemming from the award-winning tv collection.
Launched in UK cinemas on Friday, “Downton Abbey: A New Period” sees the return of the fictional aristocratic Crawley household and their servants who run a sprawling property within the English countryside within the early twentieth century.
“We have been a well-recognized group for over a decade and for practically all of us to be there was exceptional,” actor Hugh Bonneville, who performs patriarch Robert Crawley, informed Reuters of filming throughout the COVID-19 pandemic on the film’s premiere in London on Monday.
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“I appreciated the job way over I would ever accomplished earlier than after the expertise that the world had been going by means of, and I feel the discharge now could be only a tonic at a time after we want a little bit of escapism at this level. That is pure leisure,” he mentioned of the movie.
The film begins with Crawley’s mom, Girl Violet, performed by veteran Maggie Smith, stunning her household with the information that she has inherited a villa within the south of France from a person she met a long time earlier.
Led by Crawley, the household travels to France to go to the villa. On the similar time again in Britain, a movie crew is organising a film manufacturing at Downton Abbey, delighting the employees however not impressing sure relations.
“It is a actually nice script and it is very totally different. Half the characters go off to France and the remainder of us keep on the home and the home is invaded by a movie crew and actors,” mentioned Michelle Dockery, who performs Girl Mary, the eldest Crawley daughter.
“It is a actually totally different sort of film for Downton … and I feel the tie to a brand new period could be very a lot in regards to the world kind of shifting on and altering and I feel it is nice to see the characters kind of adjusting to that,” she mentioned
In addition to Bonneville, Dockery and Smith, Elizabeth McGovern and Laura Carmichael reprise their roles as Crawley relations whereas Dominic West, Hugh Dancy and Laura Haddock are new additions to the solid.
“Downton Abbey: A New Period” is the second movie to be made out of the collection, which first aired in 2011. It went on for six seasons and gained an enormous following in Britain and the US.
Requested about whether or not there can be extra “Downton Abbey” sooner or later, author Julian Fellowes mentioned: “I imply, I’ve mentioned goodbye to those characters so many occasions. However again and again they arrive. So who is aware of actually?”
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Reporting by Sarah Mills; Extra reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian;
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