'Downton Abbey' Cast & News: Isobel Crawley Actress Is Not Upset About Show Ending
Now that we know "Downton Abbey," Britain's most successful television export since "Doctor Who," will be officially coming to an end and any potential spinoffs are still years away, many fans are in mourning. However, one of the show's stars is not.
Penelope Wilton, known as Isobel Crawley on the show, is glad the show is ending, despite the fact that we will only get one more season of her banter with the Dowager Countess (Dame Maggie Smith).
Speaking with Radio Times following the Olivier awards, Wilton commented it was the time for the show to end.
"I'm not upset about it," she said. "When something has run its course, it's good to end on a high note.
"And we have to move on from 1926, and if we moved on much further I'd be dead," she added. She most likely will not be in any spin off, which Julian Fellowes has hinted at before. The show's creator and writer has said the show could return in a form set in the 1970's.
"Well, we'll have to see," she told about appearing in Fellowes' "The Gilded Age," which will begin development soon. "You can't second-guess Julian."
One person does miss the show: Dan Stevens. After his character, Matthew Crawley, died in a car crash preventable by seat belts and not looking away from the road, the actor went on to bigger Hollywood roles but misses how he started.
"It's lovely to keep watching it and to see old familiar colleagues who are still in that world," he said, according to the Express.
"I miss the guys. It was a great three years on Downton, but it's been exciting to move on and to see what comes after that."
Lady Mary's husband plays Sir Lancelot in "Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb" alongside the late Robin Williams and Ben Stiller. The actor remembers fondly working with the comedy legend and told the Express his first roles while studying were comedies.
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