The next comprises spoilers for Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
15 years after first taking part in Mary Crawley, Michelle Dockery displays upon her character’s emotional final scene within the newly-released Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.
Many an actor has come and gone from the Downton Abbey franchise within the years because it first appeared in 2010, however Dockery has caught with it all over, crossing over from the beloved TV present to the film sequence, which kicked off in 2019, and is now wrapping up with a second sequel.
Dockery’s Mary Crawley has certainly come a great distance since first showing in Downton Abbey season 1. Her evolution continues within the third Downton Abbey movie, which sees her taking her rightful place as supervisor of the titular Downton Abbey.
The movie ends on a bittersweet observe, with Mary flashing again to her experiences, and remembering deceased characters like Dan Stevens’ Matthew, who seem in a montage of clips.
Dockery spoke just lately to ScreenRant for the discharge of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, and instructed Rachel LaBonte about filming that emotional closing second as Mary, explaining why the scene proved a selected problem to grapple with:
Nicely, that scene was, I assume, my greatest problem as a result of I wasn’t taking part in to any actors. It was footage. They had been nonetheless wanting by, at the moment, as to what they may use. I feel they had been, even proper as much as the edit, nonetheless deciding on which bits of footage that they’d use for that reminiscence.
Dockery then revealed the one reminiscence she knew could be included, and talked in regards to the serving to hand she received from her director:
So, apart from Matthew and Mary dancing, I didn’t actually know what I’d be taking a look at–what the character could be taking a look at. However it was a very particular scene to shoot. It was simply myself and Simon Curtis and he would simply discuss me by every beat and who I’m seeing [and] the place I’m seeing them and simply reacting to it.
Dockery recalled how, for that second, the road between herself and her character could have barely blurred:
For me, I used to be sort of standing there and searching again during the last 15 years, and it was a really emotional scene to play each because the character and for myself in some ways.
What This Means For Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Although the most recent Downton Abbey film’s title certainly rings of finality, Dockery defined just lately why she doesn’t think about the movie an ending, however a brand new starting and a passing of the torch from one technology to the following (by way of Self-importance Truthful):
Although we’re ending it, it feels just like the story is continuous, and there’s someplace to transcend what we’re displaying you on display. As a lot as that is the grand finale, it’s a brand new starting. The younger are taking on. There’s this passing of the baton on this movie. Meaning the story continues in some ways.
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’s ending could not really feel prefer it’s really wrapped up Mary’s story, however merely marks the start of the following section of her life, as she takes on the grave duty of managing the property. However that story will stay untold, at the least for now, as The Grand Finale lives as much as its title.
Dockery appears to have gotten emotional whereas filming Mary’s final scene, though she was appearing to skinny air, with some help from director Simon Curtis. The actor’s emotions at that second crossed over with these of her character, whose journey over time has been fairly compelling.
Our Take On Dockery’s Last Mary Scene
Mary standing in Downton observing Violet’s portrait in Downton Abbey The Grand Finale
Mary’s closing flashback scene is an effective observe to finish on, because it each units up her future, whereas giving her and the viewers an opportunity to look again, and really feel all of the feels over departed characters, and lots of memorable occasions that transpired each on the present, and within the motion pictures.
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale is in theaters now.
Downton Abbey 3
Launch Date
September 12, 2025
Director
Simon Curtis
Writers
Julian Fellowes
