Elizabeth McGovern on Downton Abbey: 'It’s a really interesting challenge for me, because it feels like I have absolutely no control or power, or really a role, in any way'
Photo: Vulture and Karwai Tang/WireImage When you take away all of the ballgowns, the valets, and, yes, even the abbey, Downton Abbey’s Lady Cora and her daughter, Edith , have had to endure a whole lot of gendered bullshit since the Crawleys came into our lives in 2010. Edith, famously, was plagued with just about every misfortune interwar Britain could throw at her as a young woman “coming into” society, while Cora was mostly relegated to mom purgatory in favor of the family’s feistier women.
LC: They’re still a little bit rusty, and they tease each other. They know how much they push each other, but they’re very content with their lives. They’re living apart, which definitely helps.It’s just so perfect that Edith outranks everyone in the family now. Marchioness is such a great title. Something I always found interesting with your characters throughout Downton is that, despite both of them being within a family of high rank, they persistently had little to no power compared to everyone else — Edith was always treated with contempt until her marriage, while Cora didn’t really have much to do except be dutiful mother and wife, since the Dowager Countess was the family’s matriarch.
EM: I don’t know. Even if she were playing the game, it’s not much that she can do. I always feel such a relief to step out of the period when we’re done filming because it’s like, God, I have a voice and have some control! Even though I’m just playing a part, I find that this feeling of being straight-jacketed is really palpable. In no way, even in my most sentimental moment, do I actually want to live in that period.
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