4/3/2023 0 Comments Allen leech![]() Downton teleported viewers back to simpler times filled with “amiable, friendly misunderstandings or petty grievances. “A lot of very successful shows from this time period- Homeland, Breaking Bad-plunged you into contemporary concerns,” says Daniel D’Addario, the television critic for Variety. It’s no wonder, then, that for so many Americans, Downton-set in a time and place when daily routines and duties were entirely different from today’s plugged-in lives-was very much an escape. On Michelle Dockery, who reprises her role as Lady Mary Crawley, HERMES OVERCOAT ($17,500) AND DRESS ($7,400) DE BEERS EARRINGS (PRICE ON REQUEST) BURBERRY LIQUID LIP VELVET IN OXBLOOD ($34). The show felt delightfully foreign and yet utterly familiar series mastermind Julian Fellowes modeled Downton on American dramas with large ensemble casts, such as ER, crafting stories with ageless themes of life and death, love and fortune. We were whisked from glamorous dinner parties upstairs at the Abbey to cramped servants’ rooms downstairs and under the eaves, and across the English countryside on horseback hunts and steam train jaunts.ĭownton’s pace was slow, its dialogue sparse, and its plotlines often based on the smallest moments, such as when Lady Mary scoffs at the idea of marrying one suitor because of the improper way he holds his knife. Is this really happening? I want to shout my delight, but that wouldn’t be very Crawley-like, would it? It is surreal for a superfan like me to feel as though she has returned to the world of Downton, the first season of which was set more than a century ago-especially now, three years after the series ended.ĭevotees mourned the loss of the weekly escape away from texting and tweeting, losing ourselves in a show that reminded us of the finer points of aristocratic hierarchy. “About 17 hands,” Dockery says, as confidently and precisely as her Downton character, estimating the height of the stallion on which Leech is perched. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play As I eavesdrop on their small talk, they even sound like them. Today the women have traded their vintage beaded dresses for gowns by Dior and Hermès, but with their hair in finger waves and their necks adorned with jewels, they look remarkably like extra-glam versions of their onscreen personas. Which is why I’m having a hard time remembering to call the assembled trio of actors by their real names-Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael, and Allen Leech-and not those of the characters we’ve all come to admire: Lady Mary, the haughty eldest daughter of Lord Crawley Lady Edith, Mary’s sister and bête noire and Tom Branson, a former chauffeur who married up, joining the family as the husband to the third sister, Lady Sybil Crawley. Add to that the uniformed employees, and I am transported back to England in the 1920s, to the fanciful world of the Crawley family and the staff that served them (even if the employees at the Crane Estate get to clock out at the end of every day). The setting, a seaside mansion built in 1928 for a Chicago industrialist, is a glorious stand-in for the real deal, with its rolling green lawns and impressive stonework. ON LEECH, BRUNELLO CUCINELLI SUIT ($4,145) HERMES TURTLENECK ($1,575) CARTIERWATCH ($8,950). ON CARMICHAEL, AKRIS COAT ($5,990) ASPESI SWEATER ($335) HERMES BREECHES ($1,075) HOURGLASS LIQUID LIPSTICK IN RAVEN ($28). ON DOCKERY, CHLOE COAT ($3,695), SWEATER ($895), AND PANTS ($1,150) DE BEERS EARRINGS (PRICE ON REQUEST). Allen Leech, Michelle Dockery, and Laura Carmichael star in the Downton Abbey movie. ![]()
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