With the Downton Abbey 3 ending suggesting that there will seemingly be no fourth film intended – the film is called The Grand Finale after all – actress Michelle Dockery has spoken about the Downton Abbey alternate endings that were considered and she revealed…….
‘…..there were a couple of versions of the ending. There was another version where you saw Mary go back to work, she goes into the library and she sits at her desk. They decided to end it on the tribute to Maggie, which I think is the best ending. I always felt that it was the right way to finish. [Mary, Cora and Robert] are saying their goodbyes and I think that’s for the audience — this feeling of moving on and saying farewell to each other. But in reality, Mary’s not alone. She’s in the house with various other people, of course, all the staff. She’s got family members who are going to be coming and I think it looks forward to the future. It feels quite hopeful. I also like that at the end of this story, Mary ends up as a single woman. There’s a new chapter ahead of her, she’s happier, and she’s excited to take the reins and become the lady of the house. It’s the end, but it feels like it’s ongoing
But despite the Downton Abbey alternate endings the films actual ending in the foyer she said…..
I think that was the last moment I shot at Highclere [Castle], the last scene, and it was just me and (director) Simon (Curtis) because, of course, there’s no other actors. It’s what Mary is seeing in her imagination, all of these memories. So he kind of talked me through each piece that they were hoping to find, because they were, going to trawl through the edit of 15 years and find those beats, Mary and Matthew — that was the obvious one — dancing around the gramophone. So I knew what I was expecting there, what I was looking at there, and then a shot of Maggie walking through and then Sybil. They played the music over speakers for me, which was so helpful to really get into what that was going to feel [and] look like. Half the challenge, actually, for me in that scene was not crying and not bursting into tears as Michelle. [Laughs.] Because of course, Mary is stoic. She’s very good at holding back the tears, so it was quite a challenge that last moment.
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source : THR
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