#downton abbey 3 spoilers

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LOOK AT THE CRAWLEY SISTERS AT THE RACES 😍😍😍

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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

The cast for “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale” includes Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery, Kevin Doyle, Michael Fox, Joanne Froggatt, Paul Giamatti, Harry Hadden-Paton, Robert James-Collier, Allen Leech, Phyllis Logan, Elizabeth McGovern, Sophie McShera, Lesley Nicol, Alessandro Nivola, Simon Russell Beale, Dominic West, Penelope Wilton, Arty Froushan, Joely Richardson, Paul Copley and Douglas Reith.

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Okay, I have to admit that this poster is gorgeous.

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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:

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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.

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"I can tease the fact that I'm really surprised that I returned at all. I had a very kind of marginal character {in the TV show}, and somebody thought it was a good idea to make me very important in this [movie]," the 57-year-old two-time Academy Award nominee tells EW.

He adds that Levinson's role in the movie, which is set to conclude the Downton Abbey film and TV saga that began in 2010, is momentous for a number of reasons too good to fully spoil, though he offers a playful smile when talking about the plot.

"I do something quite important in this [movie]. I was like, wow, this is random, I have a lot to do with the end of this whole series," Giamatti continues. "I do something of real significance — good or bad, I'm not going to say! But, I do something that makes a big difference to how everything ends."

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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.

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(credit to @almamarceau for pointing this out!!)

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I'm not saying anything folks, but this, ladies and gentlemen, also happens to be the birthday of our one and only Cora Crawley.

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things we know so far about the plot of Downton 3:

- horse races

- county fair

- "thrills and spills"

- "a big thing"

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‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ Trailer Ushers In 1930 & Tells Us It’s Time To Say Goodbye – CinemaCon

Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline April 2, 2025

Focus Features today offered CinemaCon attendees an emotional look at the first trailer for Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. This is the last in the trilogy of big screen continuations of the British TV drama phenomenon. It’s written by series creator Julian Fellowes and directed by Simon Curtis.

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Plot details had previously been sparse, but the trailer shown today includes a title card that tells us “It’s time to say goodbye” before we see Hugh Bonneville’s Earl of Grantham patting the facade of the manor house on the Grantham Estate in what indeed appears to be a farewell.

Before that, we hear Jim Carter’s Mr. Carson saying, “Welcome to 1930.” There are images of the family at the races, of Dominic West’s Guy Dexter in London’s West End and Michelle Dockery’s Lady Mary ascending steps while wearing a sumptuous red gown. A portrait of the late Maggie Smith’s Dowager Countess is also lovingly framed. The first two Downton movies grossed over $287M combined globally. We learned in May that production was officially underway on the third with main cast members returning and a number of new additions to the feature franchise. Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti is reprising his role from the TV series as Cora’s (Elizabeth McGovern) brother Harold Levinson. New to the movies are Joely Richardson, Alessandro Nivola and House of the Dragon’s Simon Russell Beale and Arty Froushan. As well as McGovern, other returning key cast include Bonneville, Dockery, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Phyllis Logan, Robert James-Collier, Joanne Froggatt, Allen Leech, Penelope Wilton, Lesley Nicol, Michael Fox, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Kevin Doyle, Harry Hadden-Paton, Sophie McShera, Paul Copley and Douglas Reith. The film will pay homage to the “end of an era” with the loss of the Dowager Countess, which has taken on greater significance following the death of Oscar-winning actress Maggie Smith last September. Smith played Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, in all six seasons of the series and reprised the role in the two subsequent films, with her character dying in 2022’s Downton Abbey: A New Era. The domestic theatrical release is set for September 12 this year — can we get a Venice launch?

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“The fact that Dame Maggie herself has now passed away since that time, I do think, has given a real added poignancy to a story that we would have planned anyway,” Downton Abbey executive producer Gareth Neame recently told TVLine while promoting Peacock’s The Day of the Jackal. “The loss of the Dowager, it now feels far more significant that you see actors playing characters mourning the family matriarch. But I also see actors mourning the matriarch of the show, and it feels more genuine and more meaningful.”

Echoing the sentiment he initially shared shortly after Smith’s death, Neame calls her loss “the end of an era,” adding that “we will never see the like of Dame Maggie Smith ever again.” He believes that the entire Downton Abbey cast and crew’s “huge respect for her … will come across in in the next movie.”