12/30/2023 0 Comments Downton abbey season 5Green, is a very dark, complex character that we learn more about, and their lives have really been changed forever by this event. Anna’s rape has left a very, very huge mark on their lives. Well, I think what we didn’t want to do, because it would have been quite flippant to introduce this rape story in Season Four just for shock factor, and within a couple of episodes, they’re over it and been moved on. Was there a lot of discussion about that? Was that already in the planning stages from the outset, or did it seem like “Hey, that’s a good idea – let’s keep exploring this storyline? While the execution was engrossing, I was somewhat surprised at the storyline with Anna and Bates and the mystery surrounding the death of her assailant was continued over into this season – the show certainly arrived at a place last season where it might have concluded, plot-wise. Read More A Day at ‘Downton Abbey,’ Exclusive Look at Season 5 Or even as an 80-year-old woman, once upon a time had an enormous love affair, and that man comes back into her life even after all those years and effectively still says “I’ve always loved you.” And this is incredibly positive stuff that isn’t really covered anywhere else on television – and given that so many of the audiences for television are older people, I think it’s really positive. And I think it’s to his enormous credit as a writer that he has written such positive stories for Violet and Isobel that there are romances for people in the September of their lives – It’s just so positive! The idea that you’re capable of emotional or romantic feelings for somebody at that age. Well, that was an idea right from the beginning, and it’s certainly something Julian wanted to write. What was the conversation about this theme before you went into production, and how did you feel about the way everything carried through? They’re just trying to get along with their lives and do as well as they can and be happy just like us.Īlong with this theme of secrets, there was a theme of romance in the September of various characters’ years – Violet, Isobel, Mr. But in fact, the characters are so like us. I think audiences automatically think this is a very, very different time, different rules of engagement and everything. And we, the audience, are much more like these characters from 90 years ago than we are different from them. Therefore, Violet is much more like Mary than she is different to her. But then of course, very quickly we discover that Violet has her own past and she had a love affair. So Mary has a secret: she’s gone on this trip with Tony, and Violet finds out about it and is very judgmental and critical. So some things like that happen as you go along the process and other things you have a strong idea right from the onset.Īnd we wanted the season to have this idea about secrets. It really felt like the right time to move that story on. Hughes to marry him by the very end of this season. I think it was probably midway through that we felt very strongly that we wanted to have Carson ask Mrs. We start off with a game plan and, of course, some things you map out very early on and other things evolve as you’re developing the scripts. What was the initial plan heading into this season? Did it evolve over the course of the season at all into something a little different - or maybe even better - than you expected? See More THR Goes on the Set of ‘Downton Abbey’ Season 5 Hughes, together at last!) and the continued, inevitable move forward from an increasingly bygone time. Green), new family members (Rose got married), poignant departures (Branson and Sybbie left for America, while Isis went to doggie heaven) surprise unions (Mr. The Emmy-winning Naeme - who first pitched the notion of chronicling a declining English manor during the transition from the Edwardian era into the modern age to Fellowes - joined The Hollywood Reporter to look back at a season packed with family intrigue (Mary finally picked a suitor, then didn’t, then found an intriguing new candidate), unexpected romances (the Dowager had a spicy past, while Isobel’s future looked tormented), lingering consequences (Edith laid greater claim to her illegitimate daughter Marigold, while Anna and Bates continued to pay for the sins of Mr. broadcast of the fifth season of the beloved British import Downton Abbey now complete, the curtain is ready to be thrown back by one of the only people with a significant say in the fate of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants who isn’t creator/sole screenwriter Julian Fellowes: executive producer Gareth Neame.
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