'Downton Abbey' star Elizabeth McGovern fears another film sequel
Elizabeth McGovern confesses she thought showbiz was a breeze.
“I didn’t have anything to compare it to, so my feeling was like, ‘God, show business is easy, isn’t it?” McGovern, 60, chuckled in a recent interview with The Post. “Little did I know! Then I had to sort of stick with it for however many years, which we won’t say. But, yes, that was a very special time.”
McGovern went on to star in movies like Milos Forman’s “Ragtime,” “Racing with the Moon” opposite Sean Penn and John Hughes’ “She’s Having a Baby,” but for millions of fans around the globe she’s now instantly recognizable as beloved matriarch Cora Crawley in “Downton Abbey.”Paramount Pictures/ Everett Collection
“It’s almost like tribal rituals or something,” she said. “And it holds absolutely no weight with me. It’s quite a freeing thing to not be caught up in all the machinations of the hierarchy … I mean, I literally don’t get it.McGovern is married to British director Simon Curtis.McGovern married director Simon Curtis, who helmed the latest “Downton Abbey” film, in 1992, and the couple shares two daughters. Since then she has appeared on numerous British shows and on the UK stage.
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