By the point Downton Abbey, one of many nice Peak TV period reveals, led to 2015, Michelle Dockery’s Girl Mary Talbot had been fortunate sufficient to search out love once more, this time with Matthew Goode’s Henry Talbot. The 2 of them have been even anticipating a baby, and we received to fulfill little Caroline alongside her dad and mom within the 2019 Downton Abbey film. Nevertheless, Henry wasn’t round in 2022’s Downton Abbey: A New Period and likewise received’t seem in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, one of many later 2025 film releases. Nevertheless, Goode sees his absence this time round as a “actually constructive factor” for a particular cause, and I’ve to say, I like the way in which he’s pondering.
So far as why Goode isn’t showing in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, it boiled right down to scheduling conflicts, as he advised THR that he was busy filming the British crime thriller collection Dept. Q. The actor additionally talked about that even when he had been in a position to carve out time, there was solely “half a web page” of fabric for him. Goode continued:
And truly, I mentioned, you already know what? Why can’t this be a very constructive factor? As a result of I don’t know what they’re doing. They may kill [Henry]! I didn’t see the script. Nevertheless it’s a beautiful alternative — [Mary, Michelle Dockery’s character] is like this contemporary feminist icon and in a bizarre approach, perhaps she doesn’t want a fella. Perhaps Downton’s sufficient or perhaps some outdated suitor will are available in. Now, it opens up the story to have one thing important occur. Why have Henry come?
I’ll admit that the thought of Mary dropping one other husband doesn’t sit too effectively with me. Downton Abbey followers (who can at the moment revisit the present with a Peacock subscription) will clearly do not forget that Dan Stevens’ Matthew Crawley was her chief love curiosity through the present’s first three seasons, however he died in a automobile crash on the way in which residence after seeing his new child son within the hospital. In actual fact, Henry being a race automobile driver was the primary cause Mary initially broke off her romantic relationship with him, as she couldn’t bear the considered dropping one other husband in a automobile crash.
However placing that apart, Mary did simply tremendous with out Henry by her aspect in A New Period, along with his absence in that film being attributed to him collaborating at a racing occasion in Istanbul. If Matthew Goode’s musing that Henry Talbot could possibly be killed off is appropriate, it’s not like Mary is missing in a help system to assist her by means of this new spherical of grief, between her dad and mom, sister, brother-in-law, the household’s employees, the record goes on. My solely request is that if Henry does certainly shuffle off this mortal coil, don’t let it’s from a automobile crash.
It’s additionally doable that nothing dangerous’s going to occur to Henry, and no matter his small function would have been in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale would merely have arrange the rationale for his exit. In any case, I’m comfortable with not seeing Mary with Henry once more, nor do I must see her take up one other suitor. With this being the ultimate movie within the Downton Abbey franchise, I’d a lot quite see her spending as a lot time as doable along with her household and different family members in her life.
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale opens in theaters on September 12. For the Matthew Goode followers on the market, you’re additionally welcome to observe him play Detective Carl Morck in Dept. Q, which may now be streamed with a Netflix subscription.