Maggie Smith Plans To Stay With "Downton Abbey" Until It Ends



via BuzzFeed

“I certainly can’t keep going. To my knowledge, I must be 110 by now.” UPDATE: A rep for Smith told BuzzFeed News “she would stay in the show for as long as the show runs.”


Maggie Smith's recent comments in Britain's Sunday Times newspaper led many to believe she was leaving her role as Downton Abbey's acid-tongued Dowager Countess (aka everybody's favorite character) after the show's upcoming sixth season.


Maggie Smith's recent comments in Britain's Sunday Times newspaper led many to believe she was leaving her role as Downton Abbey's acid-tongued Dowager Countess (aka everybody's favorite character) after the show's upcoming sixth season.


(AP Photo/PBS, Carnival Film & Television Limited 2011 for MASTERPIECE, Nick Briggs


"They say this is the last one, and I can't see how it could go on," she told the paper of Season 6.


"I mean, I certainly can't keep going. To my knowledge, I must be 110 by now. We're into the late 1920s."


But her publicist told BuzzFeed News on Tuesday that Smith said previously that "she would stay in the show for as long as the show runs."


But her publicist told BuzzFeed News on Tuesday that Smith said previously that "she would stay in the show for as long as the show runs."


AP Photo/PBS, Carnival Film & Television Limited 2012 for MASTERPIECE, Nick Briggs


The show's creator, Julian Fellowes, told the New York Times he can't say whether or not the show will have a seventh season.


The show's creator, Julian Fellowes, told the New York Times he can't say whether or not the show will have a seventh season.


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