I think so much of life today is a feeling of anxiety, that we haven’t done enough, and we don’t own enough, and there is always someone to compare ourselves to, so to play a character who looks at everything and says that it was enough and that she is pleased and happy, is quite inspiring.ĭid you enjoy getting to work again with your husband, director Simon Curtis, on this movie?įirst, it is such a joy for me because he is so good at what he does, and I don’t think I’m saying that because I love him and I am married to him he has been by far our best director. And it was nice for me to play a character who could look at what she had done in her life and feel happy about it and feel contented with it. In a way, it is really an opportunity to open the window to Cora’s inner soul because when someone is at the end of their life and is forced to look at what it all meant, you really do see who they are, their essence. How rewarding was it as an actor to play Cora’s very personal storyline in this film? It’s in your bones, your DNA, and it is quite a nice feeling. It is literally a question of spending years with the character in the trenches with other people and you have won the right to just have it there. It is an interesting thing because really the work is already done and is not something that you can fake. Is it easy to get back into the character of Cora, like slipping on a pair of comfortable shoes, or is it more WITH the release of Downton Abbey: A New Era on DVD we speak to award winning actor Elizabeth McGovern about her role of Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, which she has played from the outset of Downton Abbey and reprises the role in the second film in the series, Downton Abbey: A New Era. L-R Elizabeth McGovern stars as Cora Grantham and Laura Carmichael as Lady Edith Hexhamin - DowntonĪbbey: A New Era, a Focus Features release.
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