LONDON, May 17 - Twelve years since it first premiered, television hit "Downton Abbey" is back with a second stand-alone film about the fictitious Crawley family and their servants running a sprawling English country estate in the early 20th century.
"We wouldn't be coming back... if we didn't actually get on and enjoy the company of each other's characters and indeed playing the characters," actor Hugh Bonneville, who plays patriarch Robert Crawley, told Reuters.The film, directed by Simon Curtis, begins with Crawley's mother, Lady Violet, played by veteran Maggie Smith, surprising her family with news she has inherited a villa in the south of France from a man she met decades earlier.
Having a film set within a film set was fun - and a little confusing sometimes, said Michelle Dockery, who plays Lady Mary.Cast members Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery and Laura Carmichael arrive for the world premiere of 'Downton Abbey: A New Era' in London, Britain, April 25, 2022. REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska/File Photo“I remember a couple of times when I was confused as to who was saying 'cut'," she said. "Simon was like 'we were still rolling, actually there.
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