'It’s still a happy ending.'
producer Gareth Neame has revealed that it was him, not Smith, who decided to make the Countess ill."It was my decision because I thought it’s taken us awhile to persuade Maggie to do the film and I wanted to demonstrate we wouldn’t ask her again," he toldNeame added,"But more to the point, it was about having a very tender scene between her and the Mary character and the idea of the baton being passed from the one matriarch to the next matriarch, from one generation to the next.
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