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Matthew Goode confirms he’s not in the final Downton Abbey movie

Information from Radio Times – 19th May 2025 [Extract]

Downton Abbey’s Matthew Goode confirms he’s not in final movie – and reveals why it might be for the best

We won’t be seeing Henry Talbot in the third Downton Abbey film.

Matthew Goode in Dept Q
Justin Downing/Netflix
Published: Monday, 19 May 2025 at 9:00 pm

 

Matthew Goode has confirmed that he won’t be in the anticipated third Downton Abbey film, The Grand Finale, adding that it’s probably a “good thing” his character Henry Talbot won’t be anywhere to be seen.

Speaking to Radio Times magazine in next week’s issue ahead of the release of Netflix’s Department Q, the actor was asked why he wasn’t in the second film and isn’t billed as being in the third.

He revealed: “I was unavailable for the second because I was doing The Offer. Then [for the third] I was shooting this. But I also buggered my knee, and I had to have an operation.

“That takes weeks to get over, so I was never going to be able to do it. And let’s face it, he was edging towards becoming a bit of a wet lettuce. So maybe it’s a good thing.”

Goode had starred in the original Downton Abbey TV series through seasons 5 and 6, going on to star in the first film in 2019.

Throughout his time in the franchise, he married Mary (Michelle Dockery) and the pair had their happily-ever-after – but we’re left to fill that in for ourselves, seeing as Goode hasn’t featured in the most recent film.

The Downton Abbey 3 poster, showing a character wearing a red dress walking down a fancy hallway
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. BBC

Goode is set to star as Detective Chief Inspector Carl Morck in Scottish crime drama Department Q on Netflix.

Based on the series of 10 novels by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen, the synopsis for the new drama reads: “DCI Carl Morck is a brilliant cop but a terrible colleague.

“His razor-sharp sarcasm has made him no friends in Edinburgh police. After a shooting that leaves a young pc dead, and his partner paralysed, he finds himself exiled to the basement and the sole member of Department Q; a newly formed cold case unit.”

It continues: “The department is a PR stunt, there to distract the public from the failures of an under-resourced, failing police force that is glad to see the back of him. But more by accident than design, Carl starts to build a gang of waifs and strays who have everything to prove.

“So, when the stone-cold trail of a prominent civil servant who disappeared several years ago starts to heat up, Carl is back doing what he does best – rattling cages and refusing to take no for an answer.”

 

 

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Freud’s Last Session – release date?

Northern Ireland World reported about some recent filming involving Matthew Goode for ‘Freud’s Last Session’.   Some extracts follow –

Whitehead Railway Museum was the recent setting for scenes from ‘Freud’s Last Session’.

Set on the eve of World War Two in 1939, the film sees Sigmund Freud (Sir Anthony) invite Belfast-born Christian author CS Lewis for a debate on the existence of God. Having taken up the invite, CS Lewis, played by Goode, was present at Whitehead – suitably dressed as a rural Oxfordshire station – in order to catch the train to see Freud.

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The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland (RPSI) laid on a train of 100-year-old steam engine No. 461, which is usually on display at the museum, plus three heritage carriages and a luggage van.

The locomotive was out of steam but fitted with a steam machine, while the RPSI’s train rides steam engine No. 3BG was on hand to shunt the train up and down the siding as required. The train had to be filmed in three main positions:

  • Sitting stationary at the platform whilst passengers / evacuees embarked and disembarked;
  • Departing with CS Lewis aboard (in daylight);
  • Arriving back with CS Lewis having met Freud (in the dark).

The weather was bright and sunny for the daylight shoots, and calm for the filming after darkness fell. The work was completed by 10.30pm and a cheer went up from the cast and crew because this was the final sequence in the shoot.

Lisa Adair, RPSI general manager, said: “We are regularly in demand from film-makers because we can provide steam engines and vintage carriages. We are always pleased to be able to assist.

“We are told that Freud’s Last Session will be released around December, so we look forward to seeing the finished product in the cinema.”

We’ll wait for official confirmation about the release date but it looks like it might be earlier than we thought.

Full article here – Click here!

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Is Matthew Goode in the new Downton Abbey movie.

Radio Times published the full cast list which includes Matthew.  Read more here: https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/downton-abbey-sequel-release-date/

Eagle-eyed fans did notice Matthew Goode, who plays Henry Talbot, was not in the trailer. He has been a hugely successful addition to the fifth and sixth series and many are wondering if he will return.

Not to worry, Goode is in the credits and will be making a short appearance in the film much like he did in the first of the sequel.

Read more here: https://www.nationalworld.com/culture/film/downton-abbey-2-movie-trailer-film-release-date-cast-of-a-new-era-sequel-and-will-matthew-goode-return-3454413

Thank you to MWG@matthewwgoode on Twitter for posting this.

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Downton Abbey Movie 2 news

ImageExtract from Deadline: –

A little more than two years since it debuted the first trailer for the first Downton Abbey movie at CinemaCon 2019, the sequel to the Focus Features hit big-screen transfer also got a Las Vegas unveiling during Universal’s slate presentation Wednesday. Downton Abbey 2, whose official title is now Downton Abbey: A New Era, is due to open globally starting March 18, 2022.

The teaser footage revealed today reunites us with the Crawley family and the Downton staff as preparations for an overseas journey are underway. Intones Jim Carter’s Mr Carson in one of the few lines of dialogue in the footage, “The British are coming.” There’s lots of glitz and glamour and jazz, as well as, evidently, a wedding. No word so far on when the teaser will drop for the public.

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Second Downton Abbey movie to start filming in March 2021

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: It’s many Abbey returns for Downton’s dowager

By BAZ BAMIGBOYE FOR THE DAILY MAIL – PUBLISHED: 02:04, 30 October 2020

Extracts –

Lady Mary will return (along with Matthew Goode as her husband Henry), as will her sister Lady Edith (Laura Carmichael).

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Downton will shoot from March until May next year under strict Covid-secure safety protocols.

Link to full article below and also in the Press Archive for 2020

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8895701/BAZ-BAMIGBOYE-Abbey-returns-Downtons-dowager.html?fbclid=IwAR2NHiT4mSk56QFMaFmnHzsZ7TOgMdtxFjcz0unjqltrsWCgbd2rsRCP3VY