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The Bryan Times, Bryan, Ohio
Saturday, February 16, 2013 — C-1
Bonneville presides on
‘Downton Abbey’ finale
By FRAZIER MOORE
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The third
season of “Downton Abbey” ends this
Sunday with a bang.
Exactly what that bang is, we’re not
going to say, in deference to the maybe
half-dozen “Downton” fans who still
don’t know the shocking truth.
The larger point remains that after
Sunday’s “Masterpiece Classic” (airing at 9 p.m. Eastern on PBS), viewers
must suffer “Downton” withdrawal
until next season.
But until then, we’ll have our
memories.
And what a season this has been!
The beloved valet Mr. Bates was
sprung from jail and a trumped-up
murder charge to begin married life
with his bride, the plucky lady’s maid
Anna. Robert Crawley, Earl of
Grantham, has gotten Downton Abbey
back on its feet financially with an able
assist from his son-in-law and presumptive heir, Matthew Crawley.
Matthew wed his true love, Lady Mary
Crawley. But another of Robert’s
daughters, Lady Sybil, died tragically
during childbirth.
Through it all, Robert’s mother Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham
(played by the sublimely scene-stealing, Emmy- and Golden-Globe-winning Maggie Smith) delivered a barrage of withering, hilarious rejoinders
to virtually every narrative twist.
“I remember my very first scene
with her in Season One,” says Hugh
Bonneville, who plays Robert, lord of
the manor. “She’s complaining about
the new electric lights, and suddenly
she put her fan up to her face to shield
herself from ‘the glare,’ and spent the
entire scene like that. It was so funny,
and I was just, ‘All right! There’s no
point in my even being here. She’s just
marched off with the scene!’”
Now, as then, “Downton” is a
plush, penetrating peek into the lives of
the aristocratic Crawley family and
their household servants in an English
castle of a century ago. With a cast that
also includes Michelle Dockery, Elizabeth McGovern, Dan Stevens, Jim
Carter and Brendan Coyle, the series
this season has drawn an average 11
million viewers each week while
spurring another surge of “Downton”mania, even from first lady Michelle
Obama, who pulled strings to get
episodes of the new season before it
premiered.
“Downton” has even been parsed
for its political underpinnings. Last
month, Fox News host (and native
Brit) Stuart Varney declared that
“Downton” celebrates rich people,
who “in America today are reviled.
They’re dismissed as fat cats who
don’t pay their fair share.” Yet on
“Downton” the rich people are “generous,” ‘’nice,” ‘’classy” and “they’ve
got style,” he said, “which poses a
threat to the left, doesn’t it?”
It is rare when public television is
accused of threatening left-wing orthodoxy, especially on “Fox & Friends”
(whose co-hosts Gretchen Carlson and
Brian Kilmeade expressed surprise to
learn the show isn’t called “Downtown
Abbey”). But “Downton” has a way of
engaging people, both the 99 percent
and the 1 percent alike.
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Head of Deliverance for the Olympics
commission in “Twenty Twelve,” a riotous BBC miniseries that spoofed
preparations for the London Olympics.
“There are people who think I’ve
been doing nothing for 25 years, and
then suddenly I get this role on
‘Downton Abbey,’” Bonneville says
with a laugh. “But I’ve had a really
lovely time for 25 years! I’ve played
everything from Shakespeare to sitcoms to period dramas to modern serial killers. I consider myself a character actor, and I do love playing different instruments in the orchestra
when I get the chance.”
Of course, Bonneville realizes that
“Downton” is a good bet for the lead
citation in his obituary. He has finally
acknowledged it: This show is a cultural phenomenon, not just a fleeting fad.
And he has many theories why.
First, the savory writing by series
creator Julian Fellowes. Besides, the
cast is splendid. The production values
are luxurious. And the premise remains rich with possibility.
“This is one of the few settings,
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And, yes, as the wealthy, patriarchal Lord Grantham, Bonneville does
indeed exude classiness and, at crucial
moments, generosity.
But that’s not the whole picture.
Robert Crawley is also confounded by
the modern world of post-World War I
as it upsets the social hierarchy. Meanwhile, despite his indulgence of underbutler Thomas Barrow’s shame (it
seems Thomas is gay!), Robert isn’t always the most tolerant of men.
“I don’t want thumbscrews or the
rack, but there always seems to be
something of Johnny Foreigner about
the Catholics,” he sniffs to one of his
kind during an exchange about religion.
“I don’t think I’d have a huge
amount in common with Robert if I
met him at a dinner party,” Bonneville
says. “But I like the guy. I like the fact
that while he does bluster and he’s
pompous sometimes, and he makes
mistakes, there’s a decency and a love
for his family underneath it all.”
Impeccably clad in a three-piece
gray suit and pink tie for this recent interview, the 49-year-old Bonneville,
even firmly planted in a 21st-century
Manhattan hotel, looks to the manor
born. Nonetheless, he brands himself a
member of the British middle class —
the son of a surgeon and a nurse who
once imagined becoming a lawyer —
and his roles have strayed some distance from the lofty likes of Robert
Crawley. For instance, Bonneville has
been affable and bumbling in “Notting
Hill” and “Mansfield Park,” and downright villainous in “The Commander.”
And coinciding with his “Down-
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alongside a hospital and a police station, where you can legitimately find a
real cross-section of society under one
roof,” notes Bonneville. “But underneath it all, this series is about romance
rather than sex, it’s about tension rather
than violence, and it’s about family —
both the literal family and the staff as
family. It explores the minutiae of
those social structures, the nuances of
the system as to whether someone’s in
or out.”
Not that he would want to be part of
it. He doesn’t sentimentalize that longago era any more than “Downton”
does. And yet ...
“These days,” says Bonneville, “we
have relationships that are forged, consummated and brought to an end within 24 hours. Back then, the pace of life
was slower, and I think we like to
breathe out and enjoy that world — albeit for only an hour or so, on a Sunday night.”
Just one more Sunday night, for now.
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Online:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/
masterpiece/classic
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