However, Maggie Smith no help needed if it comes to her heroine from Dounton Abbey. The 84-year-old actress for the six years played in the historic TV series Violet Crowley, the enlightenment Grandfather Grandem, and reincarnated into it in the full-length film.
As her colleagues Allen Lynch recalls and Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith had to take advantage of the cane to drive away from herself an excessively friendly and eligible assistant director.
As soon as Maggie saw that he was approaching, she put a walking cane and said that he was holding it from her at this distance,
- The actors on the show with Andy Koen told with laughter.
It is noteworthy that the full-length version of the "Dounton Abbey" unexpectedly fired well in the box office. The historical discrimination drama even bypassed a new space blockbuster with Brad Pitt "To the Stars". Recall that the plot of ribbons unfolds around the visit of George V to the family nest of famous British aristocrats.
In Russian cinemas, "Abbey Dounton" starts from November 21.