Jim Carter & Raquel Cassidy Interview - Downton Abbey: A New Era
Warning: This interview contains light spoilers for Downton Abbey: A New Era.
The long-awaited Downton Abbey: A New Era sees the family and staff of Downton thrown into new worlds, with stories coming full circle, and new beginning opening up. Inevitably, the challenge of new dynamics — of heading out to the South of France and of Hollywood invading Downton with all of its vulgarity and perceived disrespect — is felt most by the traditionalists. And they don't come much more traditional than Jim Carter's Mr. Carson.
Both Mr. Carson and Raquel Cassidy's Miss Baxter face down new adventures together, heading to the South of France in search of answers to Lady Violet's latest mystery. And on top of the sartorial challenges Downton Abbey's famous butler discovers, there are significant others to face to as Downton reckons with the loss of a very important figure. Not all change is bad, though, as Miss Baxter finally gets her happy ending and Carson's future once more brings him back into the fold.
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Ahead of Downton Abbey: A New Era's release on DVD and Blu-ray on July 5,Screen Rant spoke to stars Jim Carter and Raquel Cassidy about the Downton family heading to France, that proposal, and an idea for Downton Abbey 3...
Screen Rant: I'm sure you've been asked already, but what was your favorite memory of making A New Era?
Jim Carter: Well, I'm afraid this is an answer that might have been given before. The trip to the South of France. It's got to be, hasn't it? In context, we were filming a year ago [when] lockdown restrictions were still in place — more strictly in France than England. There was a contingency plan that if we hadn't been able to travel
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