Allen Leech on ‘Downton Abbey’, smuggling tea to Dame Maggie Smith and whether the end really is the end‘Downton Abbey’ star Allen Leech tells us what it felt like to be back playing Tom Branson again, how the recently-released movie really is the end of an era and what the most rebelliously Irish thing he ever did while filming is.fans will well know at this stage, the highly-anticipated sequel movie opened in cinemas nationwide back in April.
“Julian says this, you can’t have every story fully closed. You have to leave some open-ended and Branson was one of those. I just felt that it would have been great to see him find happiness again and the great thing is, in these two movies, he found that.” “It’s always a joy to come back to this cast. And we oftentimes, nearly always, will have the same crew, so, that’s also so lovely. We are basically like a family where we just get back together. And the great thing is like families, it’s kind of like going home for Christmas, you know, it’s just for the right amount of time.”
Claiming that he really doesn’t know either way, the actor thinks that ultimately, the show’s future lies in the fans’ hands. “I think, to be honest, it comes down to how the fans react and if they if they go out and watch us. And you know, it’ll always come down to that. The fans are the ones who’ve made this show what it is. So it’ll it’ll come down to whether they want to, you know, I suppose vote with their bums.
“And when you have someone like Maggie, who is so gracious and so wonderful to work with and she doesn’t have an ego, then no one else can and that’s why we’re a family because we’re all here as a genuine ensemble. She sets the tone and it’s just wonderful to work with great actors. As Julian Fellowes says himself, ‘it’s lightning in a bottle’. Any ensemble moment where you see the whole cast together probably justifies and sums up the show.
Accents are no big deal to the actor though, who actually wanted to do his first audition in a Yorkshire accent in keeping with how the character was originally written. Fellowes asked him to do it in his usual voice though, which he did, and thus John became Tom.
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