The symbol of French charm in the holy of holies of the English aristocracy.
Nathalie Baye will star in the second installment of
Downton Abbey, an
adaptation of the successful British series.
This happy news was revealed on February 12 by
Daily Mail
critic
Baz Bamigboye.
“
Madame Nathalie Baye will play an old friend of Violet
Crawley
who comes to visit her.
Of course, the countess will be surrounded, as usual, by members of her family ”
, he revealed.
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Filming should begin at the end of March, under a very strict health protocol.
The film's script is still a secret, but it should be the sequel to the first installment, released in 2019. We learned at the end of the first film that Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, played by Maggie Smith, was ill.
Perhaps Nathalie Baye, in this suite, will serve as his bedside lady as Lady Crawley had done in her youth with Princess Helene Soutzo.
Huge British actress, Maggie Smith is also known for playing Professor Minerva McGonagall in
Harry Potter
.
Other stars of the Downton Abbey series will be in this second adaptation: Hugh Bonneville, (Lord Grantham), Elizabeth McGovern (Cora) or Michelle Dockery (Mary).
Nathalie Baye, undisputed star in France, has already worked with major international directors.
She notably played in
Stop me if you can
by Steven Spielberg, but also in
Juste la fin du monde
and
Laurence Anyways
, two feature films by Quebec prodigy Xavier Dolan.
And
The
Daily Mail,
dithyrambic, describes the one who was one of the great loves of Johnny Hallyday as
"one of the greatest current French actresses".