It’s Too Late For Lily James To Star In A Downton Abbey Movie
Warning: SPOILERS for Downton Abbey: A New Era
After Downton Abbey: A New Era, it may be too late for Lily James to star as Lady Rose Aldridge in a sequel. Downton Abbey: A New Era brings sweeping change to the lives of the Crawley family and their servants. While Lady Mary Talbot (Michelle Dockery) oversees a film production at Downton Abbey, Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham (Hugh Bonneville) leads a contingent of the family to the French Riviera to investigate why his mother, Lady Violet the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith), was given a villa. By the end of A New Era, Downton Abbey is poised to enter the 1930s having lost Lady Violet but gaining another new family member: the newborn baby of Tom Branson (Allen Leech) and his wife Lucy (Tuppence Middleton).
Lily James joined Downton Abbey at the end of season 3 and she became a principal cast member in seasons 4 and 5. Essentially, James' spirited and rebellious Lady Rose MacClare, a cousin of Lord Grantham, was the replacement for Lady Sybil after Jessica Brown-Findlay chose to exit Downton Abbey and her character was dramatically killed off. Initially self-centered, Rose was a bit of a troublemaker who made scandalous choices in her choice of romantic partners, such as Jack Ross (Gary Carr), an African-American jazz singer Rose nearly ran off with. Rose chose to marry Atticus Aldridge (Matt Barber), a Jewish banker whose family hailed from Russia. The Adridges moved to America and had a baby but Rose and Atticus did return for theDownton Abbey series finale, which was set during Christmas 1925. Since then, there have been two Downton Abbey films moving the saga forward to 1929.
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