Paul Giamatti spills juicy preview for “Downton Abbey” return, says character does ‘one thing fairly necessary’ in ultimate movie (unique)

Oscar-nominated actor Paul Giamatti's preliminary stint on beloved TV drama Downton Abbey would possibly've been a small one-episode look again on season 4, however now the star solely tells Leisure Weekly he'll return for the upcoming third Downton Abbey movie to shut out the franchise in a really large approach.

After enjoying as what he calls the "marginal character" of Harold Levinson — brother of Cora Crawley (Elizabeth McGovern) — within the fourth season's ninth installment titled "The London Season" in 2013, Giamatti reveals to EW that his character's return within the Downton Abbey 3 film can have a huge effect on the finale.

"I can tease the truth that I'm actually stunned that I returned in any respect. I had a really form of marginal character, and any individual thought it was a good suggestion to make me essential on this [movie]," the 57-year-old two-time Academy Award nominee tells EW.

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He provides that Levinson's function within the film, which is ready to conclude the Downton Abbey movie and TV saga that started in 2010, is momentous for quite a few causes too good to totally spoil, although he gives a playful smile when speaking in regards to the plot.

"I do one thing fairly necessary on this [movie]. I used to be like, wow, that is random, I’ve quite a bit to do with the top of this complete sequence," Giamatti continues. "I do one thing of actual significance — good or unhealthy, I'm not going to say! However, I do one thing that makes an enormous distinction to how every part ends."

EW has reached out to a consultant for Focus Options, the studio that distributes the Downton Abbey motion pictures in america, for remark.

Launched in 2010 from creator Julian Fellowes, the unique Downton Abbey sequence ran by way of 2015 on the British community ITV and on PBS in America, and adopted the lives of the aristocratic Crawley household and their staff of servants at their Yorkshire property in 1912.

Along with the TV sequence, two Downton Abbey movies have been launched, together with the primary in 2019 and its sequel, Downton Abbey: A New Era, in 2022.

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Different stars set to return for the third Downton Abbey film (which is ready for launch on Sept. 12) embrace McGovern, Michelle Dockery, Dominic West, Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Phyllis Logan, Robert James-Collier, Joanne Froggatt, Allen Leech, Penelope Wilton, Lesley Nicol, Michael Fox, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Kevin Doyle, Harry Hadden-Paton, Sophie McShera, and Douglas Reith.

Giamatti is subsequent set to seem on TV within the upcoming seventh season of Netflix's sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror, which debuts April 10 on the streamer.

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