The upcoming third Downton Abbey movie will reportedly embrace a tribute to late appearing legend Maggie Smith and her character, per a producer on the venture.
Dame Maggie Smith died in September this 12 months on the age of 89. All through her esteemed profession, Smith was celebrated for a lot of roles, considered one of which was that of Dowager Violet Crawley within the Downton Abbey franchise. The franchise first started as an acclaimed TV sequence, earlier than turning into a movie sequence.
Up to now, two movies have been made within the franchise; Downton Abbey (2019) and Downton Abbey: A New Period (2022). Smith’s character Dowager Violet Crawley dies on the finish of the second movie. A 3rd movie is within the works and is because of premiere in September subsequent 12 months.
Per govt producer Gareth Neame in a dialog with TVLine, the upcoming third movie within the trilogy will embrace a tribute to the character and Smith herself.
Neame stated: “The truth that Dame Maggie herself has now handed away since that point, I do suppose, has given an actual added poignancy to a narrative that we’d have deliberate anyway. The lack of the Dowager, it now feels much more vital that you just see actors enjoying characters mourning the household matriarch. However I additionally see actors mourning the matriarch of the present, and it feels extra real and extra significant.”
He went on to calls her loss “the top of an period,” including that “we are going to by no means see the like of Dame Maggie Smith ever once more.”
In the course of the authentic TV run of Downton Abbey – which ran from 2010 to 2015 – Smith’s portrayal of Violet Crawley earned her three Primetime Emmy Awards, 4 Display screen Actors Guild Awards and a Golden Globe Award
Shortly after Smith’s dying, Whoopi Goldberg shared a tribute on Instagram, writing in honour of her late Sister Act co-star: “Maggie Smith was an ideal lady and a superb actress. I nonetheless can’t imagine I used to be fortunate sufficient to work with the ‘one-of-a-kind’. My heartfelt condolences exit to the household… RIP.”
Dame Maggie Smith made her stage debut in 1956 and went on to win Oscars for her roles in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and California Suite (1978). She additionally starred within the likes of Hook, Dying On The Nile and The Greatest Unique Marigold Lodge.
She was made a Dame in 1990 for her companies to the performing arts and is considered one of solely a handful of individuals to have received a Triple Crown Of Appearing – An Emmy, Tony and Oscar.
Following the information of her passing, pals and followers took to social media to pay tribute to the legendary actor. Presenter Gyles Brandreth stated Smith’s dying “marks the top of a golden period”. “She was a really nice actress, one of many greats’ & merely the perfect firm: smart, witty, waspish, great. Certainly one of a form in each means & consequently irreplaceable,” he added.
Elsewhere, comic Omid Djalili stated “We’ve misplaced one the perfect at the moment” whereas George Takei wrote: “A grand star of display and stage has departed. Maggie Smith, recognized most just lately for her unforgettable roles because the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey and as Professor McGonagall within the Harry Potter movies, handed away at age 89. Followers each young and old shall miss her dearly.”
