"Downton Abbey" creator was a "marked man" when he killed Matthew Crawley

The story behind the biggest blow in the history of the show.


Downton Abbey Completed its six-year stroke in the United States in 2016 with producers indicating that it may not be the viewers of the last time viewers would see their favorite characters from the beloved British series. And now, three years later, the long-awaited film version ofDownton Abbey opens to the United States on September 20th. The fans rejoice, but according to the creative seriesJulian FellowesSome are always mad at him for killing Matthew Crawley (Dan StevensIn a car accident in the final episode of the third season. In this same episode, just a few minutes before, Matthew met his newborn and professed his eternal love to his wife, Lady Mary (Dockery Michelle), so to speak, it was a shot for viewers is a euphemism.

"I was a marked man," Fellowes said when I put him a posound the tumult who followed after killing Matthew, who had already had the threatening life of the injuries suffered inFirst World War. "I had letters - I can not even start telling you."

The viewers in the United Kingdom have been the first to learn from the unexpected death of Matthew when the episode was broadcast on Christmas Day across the pond in 2012. ("It certainly did not help," said Fellowes.) The fans have given pending the traditional warm and unique fuzzy special Christmas, only to almost choke on their fruit cake. Fellowes told me that the reaction was so strong, that the producers decided to try to soften the coup for tenides teiders, fleeing indications on the start of the actor before the diffusion of the episode to the states -Unis in 2013.

"It was such a shock here that we leaks on social media a little in America because we did not want the same type of suicidal shock," he said.

Stevens alerted the producers he wanted to leave the show after the production of the third season had already begun, who put fellres in a creative Quonda. The very emotional season had already included the heartbreaking death of another main character, Lady Sybil (Jessica Brown Findlay), who died after giving birth to his baby girl. Findlay had informed the producers in advance that it had planned only to stay with the show for three years, the standard length of the actors contracted to appear to the U.K television series.

"I was not antipathic. My problem was that if I knew earlier, I would have probably killed him and Jessica together in a car accident or something like that," said Fellowes. "I had already written the episode five and I threw it. I could not have any other death where we would have funerals and memorials and the only way to prevent it from killing it in the last shot of the last episode. "

Fellowes told me that he proposed to kill Matthew Off in the first episode of the fourth season, but Stevens had other projects. "It was difficult for him. We offered him a movie, a play on Broadway and all these things. Of course he is very beautiful and he was young and full of vigor," said Fellowes. "When you are an actor, you can only follow your intestine. There is no rules book that does not mean anything."

All this has resulted in what remains one of the most discussed events in the history of the Hit series. "I did not want him to be at all. I loved Dan and I thought he was wonderful," Fellowes said. "It does not happen in [fans] that you have written a character, because the actor wanted to do [something else]. With some characters, they do not have to die. But with the family, if you are not going Not seeing them again, they must die. There is no way "around that".

Last August, Stevens shared a picture of himself alongside the Dockery andAllen Leech toInstagram, asking, "What Matthew has a mustache for the # downtonabbebeyymow ...? Vote below ..." It seemed to be teasing of the potential return of the character inDownton'sGreat screen adaptation, but unfortunately, the actor does not appear in the movie. And for more information on the next movie, check these11 Secrets on theDownton AbbeyMovie.

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