Downton Abbey: A New Era Gets Meta With Film-Within-a-Film

This story contains spoilers for Downton Abbey: A New Era. Downton Abbey: A New Era, the new movie sequel to the highly popular period drama, boasts a wedding, a birth, a death, a threat to the family bloodline—and of course, Dowager Violet Crawley (Dame Maggie Smith) firing off deadpan zingers. “Downton Abbey is just really the gift that keeps on giving. I couldn’t believe we were going to do a second movie because it’s just so hard to do,” said Elizabeth McGovern, who plays Cora Crawley, at the film’s U.S. premiere at the New York Metropolitan Opera House on Sunday…. Read Full Article