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Maggie Smith to leave ‘Downton Abbey’ after Season 6
New York Daily News ^
| 3-2-15
| David Hinckley
Posted on 03/02/2015 3:48:25 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
"Downton Abbey" is losing its Dowager Countess.
Maggie Smith, who plays the sharp-tongued Violet on the beloved PBS drama, told the Times of London Sunday that the upcoming sixth season will be her last.
Perhaps more alarming to fans, if that’s possible, was Smith’s broad hint that this could also be the finale for the show itself.
"They say this is the last one, and I can't see how it could go on," Smith told the Times. “I mean, I certainly can't keep going ... To my knowledge, I must be 110 by now. We're into the late 1920s."
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TOPICS: Books/Literature; History; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: dowagercountess; downtonabbey; elderly; hollywood; maggiesmith; pbs
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Maggie Smith as the Dowager Countess Violet
To: afraidfortherepublic
My entire family enjoy the show, but season 5 has been a drag. Maybe 6 seasons is enough.
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posted on
03/02/2015 3:52:50 PM PST
by
napscoordinator
(Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
To: afraidfortherepublic
Maggie — please stay!
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posted on
03/02/2015 3:53:54 PM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(Why would you want to "fundamentally change" a country you love?)
To: Albion Wilde
She does have all the best lines.
To: afraidfortherepublic
Love her performance. Missed her movies over the years. Now hoping to catch up.
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posted on
03/02/2015 3:56:59 PM PST
by
nfldgirl
To: afraidfortherepublic
The show is over as far as I’m concerned.
Finis.
.
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posted on
03/02/2015 3:58:42 PM PST
by
Mears
(To learn, who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."~~Voltaire))
To: afraidfortherepublic
“I mean, I certainly can’t keep going ... To my knowledge, I must be 110 by now. We’re into the late 1920s.”
Haha....I love Maggie Smith.
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posted on
03/02/2015 3:59:03 PM PST
by
Politicalkiddo
("He repays everyone for what they have done; He brings on them what their conduct deserves.")
To: napscoordinator
Agree that it's fraying at the edges-- even the writing has slipped a bit-- but I still find it the best thing on TV. I've watched most episodes at least twice and still find little details of dialogue or action I missed the first or second time.
Somewhere in an earlier season Violet mention her debut sometime around 1865. So I believe her character's age would be around 80 - 85 in 1924.
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posted on
03/02/2015 3:59:26 PM PST
by
pierrem15
("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
To: afraidfortherepublic
To my knowledge, I must be 110 by now. We're into the late 1920s
Ok, so last night's ep was Xmas 1924. The show started with the sinking of the Titanic, in 1912. So only 12 years have passed over the course of five seasons.
If Smith is saying that they're up to the "late 1920's" she might be referring to where Season 6 will start. So I suspect that going from Season 5 to Season 6 will involve a major skip-ahead on the magnitude of several years.
To: afraidfortherepublic
She was quite the cutie...
To: napscoordinator
At this point I watch only for the zingers between Violet and Isobel! Well that and the cars, dresses, and table settings.
To: afraidfortherepublic
Saw her as Lady Macbeth in Stratford-on-Avon (Ontario) in 1977.
She's complaining that now after Downton Abbey she can't go anywhere without being recognized, despite a lifetime on the stage and screen beforehand.
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posted on
03/02/2015 4:03:44 PM PST
by
pierrem15
("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
To: nfldgirl
She has a new movie coming out in the next couple of weeks — The 2nd Grand Marigold Hotel.
To: afraidfortherepublic
I am pretty sure the writers are going to off the Earl of Grantham with a heart attack.
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posted on
03/02/2015 4:05:04 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(If obama speaks and there is no one there to hear it, is it still a lie?)
To: afraidfortherepublic
Looking good and kicking butt at 80!
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posted on
03/02/2015 4:06:55 PM PST
by
Ken H
(DILLIGAF)
To: nfldgirl
Start off with ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’. She’s amazing.
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posted on
03/02/2015 4:11:15 PM PST
by
CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
To: pierrem15
Saw her as Lady Macbeth in Stratford-on-Avon (Ontario) in 1977. She's complaining that now after Downton Abbey she can't go anywhere without being recognized, despite a lifetime on the stage and screen beforehand. Didn't she win the best actress Oscar for Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in '69 or so?
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posted on
03/02/2015 4:12:11 PM PST
by
Sans-Culotte
(Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I thought so too. My husband said that they diagnosed it as ulcers (I must have closed my eyes for a moment), but I thought he’d be gone by Christmas.
To: tanknetter
Her character makes lots of “personal” references to the 1800s. Don’t recall how early, though.
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posted on
03/02/2015 4:14:18 PM PST
by
Politicalkiddo
("He repays everyone for what they have done; He brings on them what their conduct deserves.")
To: Mears
I was over it a long time ago. It was basically the same drama over and over.
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posted on
03/02/2015 4:14:59 PM PST
by
Politicalkiddo
("He repays everyone for what they have done; He brings on them what their conduct deserves.")
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