Hugh Bonneville & Elizabeth McGovern Interview - Downton Abbey: A New Era

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Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern return as Lord and Lady Grantham in Downton Abbey: A New Era. Picking up after the events of Downton Abbey's hit 2019 film, A New Era sees Robert and Cora Crawley lead a contingent of the family to the South of France to learn why Robert's mother, Lady Violet, the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith), mysteriously inherited a villa on the French Riviera.

Robert and Cora end up learning much more than they bargained for in Downton Abbey's highly-anticipated sequel, which arrives in theaters on May 20.

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Screen Rant chatted with Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern about Robert and Crawley's adventure on the French Riviera, the revelations Lord and Lady Grantham learn in the film, and where they would want to film next if there is a Downton Abbey 3.

Screen Rant: In the film, you both leave Mary [Michelle Dockery] in charge of Downton and you get to go off to the South of France. What was the best part of filming in the Riviera?

Hugh Bonneville: (laughs) I don't think there was a worst part. The most challenging part, and I say this with tongue slightly in my cheek, is that we had to quarantine for a week in a gorgeous hotel before we could start filming. So that was tough, spending all that time with people you like anyway in a swimming pool. So that was tough.

But actually filming in the villa itself was obviously a complete treat. The only delicate thing was trying to make sure that all of the passenger ships and the speedboats in the background weren't there when we were actually filming in that direction. It was hot. It was full of crickets making their lovely noise, so we had a lot of sound issues and sound