People can’t really imagine another Downton Abbey series without Maggie Smith, but the creator and top actresses don’t know if the end has come for the popular hit period drama series or maybe viewers should look forward to another season with the usual faces.
Recently wrapping up its fifth season in the United States, everyone already looks forward to a sixth edition that might signal the end of the seasons, but no one just knows with Downton Abbey. Maggie Smith – winner of the Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe, and Tony revealed she might have to hang up her Dowager Countess wardrobe after the sixth season, but who can tell maybe it will really come or turn out to really be the last of the shows.
“They say this is the last one, and I can’t see how it could go on,” said Smith. “I mean, I certainly can’t keep going. To my knowledge, I must be 110 by now. We’re into the late 1920s.”
In spite of what Smith says, believers know she can still be wooed back to the show for a seventh season if the show keeps on running, because it is the love of her life. However, series creator Julian Fellowes happens to be working on another period drama titled The Gilded Age for NBC, and he might not start work on this series until Downton Abbey is down and rested for good.
But funny enough, producers say they don’t know nothing about when the show will end, and Fellowes said he lacks power to determine when the series actually ends.
“It’s not really my decision. I don’t own Downton Abbey now. NBC Universal [which owns Carnival Films] owns Downton Abbey. So I could walk away, but I wouldn’t walk away. It’s too much my baby,” he said. “It won’t go on forever — I’m not a believer in that. But I can’t immediately now tell you where the end will be.”
Whatever the case, the statuses of other faces exiting the drama cannot be determined easily because according to Fellowes, “Oh, no, I never answer those questions,” when asked if Branson was gone for good.
And hoping her character, Rose, will be appearing in the sixth season, Lily James who will coming up in Cinderella said “I’m really hoping to come back, I feel like it’s definitely going to happen. It depends on what [creator Julian Fellowes] writes and all sorts of things.”