Who should also be there but Lady Maud, who advises him against buying a helmet-like number which makes him look like "King Zog of Albania" and suggests a nifty Panama-type titfer instead. Sweating buckets in his customary bowler, Carson reluctantly enters a hat shop to purchase a straw boater. Jim and Imelda didn't appear in the same scene in Downton Mark 1 but they have a cheeky little scene together - just the two of them - in the latest. She reappeared as Lady Maud Bagshaw, a relation of Lord Grantham who popped up in the first Downton film. But for us it was a joy."ĭoubly so for Jim as his real-life wife, Imelda Staunton, was there, too. "For those people who stayed behind filming in the UK, it was pouring rain in England. I had to make sure I didn't get a suntan as obviously Carson wouldn't have had one. We had to quarantine for a week but we were staying at a hotel with a swimming pool. "We were quite giddy when we finally arrived. Now Scotland's stunning but it's not the south of France. Plan B was substituting the Riviera with Scotland. It was touch and go till the last minute as to whether we'd be able to go due to the pandemic. "The south of France was a complete treat for us. It was bliss after all those months of lockdown. "Sure, it was a little bit warm but so what? I didn't mind that at all. "I mean, shoot me if I could say I was miserable filming in the south of France overlooking the Mediterranean," he smiles. While Carson clearly wasn't partial to the Cote d'Azur, the same couldn't be said for Jim. He's very suspicious of the French and their ability to do anything properly." "But once there, he shows fairly typical xenophobia. "Carson is so grumpy about the crew it's thought the best thing to do is whisk him out of the way," explains Jim.
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Meanwhile, Downton Abbey itself has been invaded by a film crew who are paying top dollar to shoot a movie there. It sees Carson - along with other characters - travelling to the south of France because Lady Violet, the Dowager Countess of Grantham (Dame Maggie Smith), has inherited a Mediterranean villa.
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I'm talking to Jim at the digital launch of Downton Abbey: A New Era, the second feature-length film in the series which is released on platforms early this month. The "voice" - deep and lusciously lugubrious - is instantly recognisable and, it has to be said, very easy on the ear. It must be the double whammy of the eyebrows and the voice." "It's funny, with the exception of maybe Lesley Nicol who plays cook Mrs Patmore, if I were to go out with any other 'below stairs' female Downton characters dressed in our 'civvies', odds are that I would get recognised but they wouldn't. "It is true to say that I do get recognised everywhere as Mr Carson," he concedes. Trinket or treasure, Jim's a gem whose performance as the man who keeps up appearances for the aristocratic Crawley family has won him four Emmy nominations.
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