#Cora crawley

[andallthatmishigas]

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I'm back in my Downton Abbey era and wanted very much to be able to write for them again. I have a few prompt lists saved and made my friends choose a random number for me so I could get some inspiration. Prompts I used here are:

"You like this, don't you? I remember you saying." One fixes the other's clothing before they leave the house One helps calm the other when they're anxious

It felt really good to be back in this world. Please comment/review if you read! :)

[kidcataldo]

Thinking how future historians in the downton abbey universe will wonder if the crawleys were actually murderers, bc there’s just an excessive amount of deaths on record to make any of it look innocent

And like an entire subreddit would exist to prove lord grantham was some type of mob boss in the aristocracy, who killed anyone who wronged his family. The descendants of the granthams are constantly in the media trying to disprove these theories, like “no great grandad was just a guy… we think” but they don’t really have any solid evidence to disprove any claims bc the family took those secrets to the their graves

It’s so bad that people wholeheartedly believe he was the one who sunk the titanic and caused World War I

[rosalyn51]

Photo: Shirley MacLaine as Martha Levinson, Paul Giamatti as Harold Levinson and Jim Carter as Mr. Carson in Downton Abbey's 2013 Christmas special (ITV ), Elizabeth McGovern as Cora Crawley, Hugh Bonneville as Robert Crawley, and actor Alessandro Nivola (ScreenRant), and Downton Abbey 3 announcement (Focus Features)

Brand-New Downton Abbey Actor Explains How His Character Fits Into the Crawley Family Dynamic

ScreenRant March 9, 2025

With Alessandro Nivola set to tread the halls of Downton Abbey, the actor opened up about how his new character fits into the universe and on reuniting with former co-stars for the production. While the series concluded in 2015, the historical drama was followed by two movies that continued the story across 2019 and 2022, with a third movie announced in May 2024. Nivola is best known for his roles in Face/Off, Mansfield Park, Selma, The Many Saints of Newark, and most recently appeared as Attila in the cast of The Brutalist. As Nivola sat down with ScreenRant to discuss his role in the upcoming comedy Fantasy Life at SXSW, the actor gave some early details on his arrival at Downton Abbey for the upcoming movie. The actor was both nervous to join the existing cast and excited to reunite with co-stars Hugh Bonneville, Dominic West, and Paul Giamatti, with Nivola revealing that his character is a long-time acquaintance of Giamatti's Harold Levinson. Check out Nicola's full response below:

*Spoilers*

I don't play a Brit for once. I'm not playing a Brit in Downton Abbey. I guess on paper, it's a tricky ask to come into that cast because they've all been working together for 15 years, and they are like a family. But I had the benefit of having my own personal history with a lot of the people who were in it, like Hugh Bonneville, who was in Mansfield Park with me back 20 some years ago. Dominic West is an old family friend and had starred in my wife's series that she directed, The Pursuit of Love. And then Paul Giamatti, who I really have a double act with in the movie, I've known since I was about 17. I was an undergrad at Yale when he was at the Yale School of Drama, and we were in a bunch of plays together, and then his kids went to the same school as my kids, and we've just known each other a long time. And then on top of all that, we both played the Rhino in two different Marvel universes. It really was joyful entering into that world with them. I really will be executed if I tell you anything too revealing, but Paul and I are both Americans. He's the brother of Elizabeth McGovern's character, Cora, and lives in New York. I'm one of his carousing drinking buddies, and we come back to the house at the beginning of the movie.

What Nivola's Comments Reveal About Downton Abbey's Final Movie Could Health Woes Reunite A Family?

First mentioned in Downton Abbey season 3, Giamatti's Harold is described as a playboy whose work sees him working on the development of boats, though it wasn't until the 2013 Christmas special that he made his full debut. Striking up a relationship with Madeleine Allsopp (Poppy Drayton) during a visit in 1923, and would be unknowingly used in a plot involving a poker game distraction, before leaving for a family European tour. As such, it is unclear how the character will return in the upcoming movie fifteen years after his last appearance. With Drayton not among the currently-announced cast, it is likely that Nivola and Giamatti could play more into a story involving Cora Crawley (Elizabeth McGovern) herself, given the actor's explicit mention of the character. While Cora was diagnosed with Pernicious anemia in the second movie, it was stated that her condition was treatable. As such, a potential Levinson family reunion could be instigated by her ongoing treatment for the disease. As Downton Abbey's third movie has been described as the final installment, it is likely that the movie will be more focused on providing a conclusion to the stories of the longtime characters as opposed to new inclusions and plots. With this, Nivola's quote seemingly suggests that at least his own casting was to create a character who could support an existing figure, in this case being Harold. With details being few about the final Downton Abbey movie ahead of its release, many may wonder which other longtime characters will be supported by new additions.

[lesbians4kurt]

robert: and if u kick every gay servant out of downton abbey, who will be winning the house vs. village cricket match, mr. carson?!

cora: oh that’s not—

robert: in the sense that!

[mar-nu-falmar]

My favourite Cobert activities: Kissing

[totallovestrucksimp]

HOPES FOR DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE

1. Mary and Anna have a touching moment telling each other how much they mean to each other (or something like that)

2. Mrs Hughes passing the torch as housekeeper to Anna.

3. Mary getting divorced. Or at least talking about getting divorced.

4. Anna giving birth to a baby girl

5. A romantic moment between Cora and Robert

6. Literally the slightest mention of Matthew or Sybil or maybe even Micheal.

THINGS THAT WILL MAKE ME LOSE MY SH*T IF THEY HAPPEN:

1. Anna tells Mary she wants to leave and run a hotel with her husband, but they’ll always be friends

2. Henry shows up and everyone acts like there was nothing wrong between them.

3. A Bates gets arrested.

[moonofthechilcotin]

I have a really hard time believing Cora -"I carried a corpse for my daughter" and "I stood up to Violet and Rosamund and orchestrated a recovery mission for Edith / I'm bringing my granddaughter Marigold home" - Crawley actually missed Sybil's wedding.

[ask-carson-real]

This pic is cute but why does he look like he just ate a sour lemon

[such-g00d-luck]

you know it hits hard

[theremarkablemrshall]

[alienas]

COSTUME APPRECIATION Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, Downton Abbey

[ohtobealady]

If I can bear it, you can. Remember, I loved you from the start.

Young Robert & Cora Crawley, Downton Abbey

[kidcataldo]

If Downton Abbey had a 1980s theme song part 2 (with credits)

[decino]

Live Crawley Reaction™

Downton Abbey: A New Era dir. Simon Curtis

[ionlylikemycat]

watching downton abbey and just having a thought

has cora ever actually cheated on robert? we see her be Mad at him, but we’ve seen him Actually Have An Affair which i don’t think we ever do with her

yet in season 5 robert is throwing a tantrum about the art historian guy mr bricker and cora’s friendship with him, suggesting all sorts of terrible things about it and like

he’s the only one who’s ever been unfaithful?? like unless i’m forgetting some time they’ve talked about it before but i don’t think they have

like i know hypocrisy is robert’s Whole Thing but still

rude

that’s your wife behave better

[brazilianreader]

Cora and her son, the future Lord Grantham

Excuse me??? I just watched the second Downton movie and this scene at the end where Cora is with George (I'm not sure if it's him, do you know?) and immediately I couldn't help but think of Cora with her youngest son, the baby she lost but who would have been born to become a boy if O'Brien hadn't been a * (I believe the network guidelines don't allow me to expose everything I think about that stupid woman here)

Anyway, Cora deserved that baby, her baby, so much. I watched that horrible scene almost ten years ago now and to this day I've never gotten over it.