Chasing Matthew Goode

When Matthew Goode, who stars as Benedict Cumberbatch’s dapper rival in The Imitation Game, suggests that we get an 11 A.M. drink at The Egg Shop on New York’s Lower East Side, I’m impressed. Rarely, if ever, do the guys we feature in this column select the establishment. And a pre-noon cocktail hour? Also noteworthy.

And rarer yet is the subject who, upon your arrival, is found hunched over a plate of sunny side ups at the bar. If it weren’t for the shockingly blue eyes peeking out from behind a pair of smart lenses, I might have easily mistaken him for a handsome regular. And no wonder: Not only does Goode live nearby with his family—actress Sophie Dymoke and daughters Matilda, 5, and Teddy, 14 months—the establishment’s proprietor also introduced the actor to his wife. So, aside from a pub in Hampstead where he likes to hole up with famous buds ranging from Benedict Cumberbatch to Dominic West, this is about as close to home turf as one can get.

Toward the end of the drink, our mouths newly aflame from the homemade hot sauce in our early bird beverages, I ask him what the deal is with British guys being noticeably standoffish in social settings, anyway. He pauses a moment to think and then narrows his eyes, which have started to pick up flecks of the early winter sun flooding in through the tiny shop’s glass doors. “What British women have figured out is that we lower our standards when we’re drunk,” he says. “So some women just go, ‘Oh. He’s mine!’ And we just go, ‘Okay!'” I hold myself back, but everything in my being is going, He’sminehe’sminehe’sminehe’smine.

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After months flitting between two eligible bachelors, fans of Downton Abbey may have hoped Lady Mary was about to finally settle down to find true love.

But it appears another handsome gentleman is soon to waltz into her life, as actor Matthew Goode joins the cast for a Christmas special.

Goode, who has already starred in period dramas including Dancing on the Edge and Death Comes to Pemberley, is expected to play a potential new beau for Lady Mary, after her long dalliance with aristocrats Charles Blake and Lord Gillingham.

The final episode of this series appeared to be leading up to a decision between the two, after storylines involving pre-marital sex and a love rival.

The Christmas special, however, promises yet further twists to the Crawley family’s love lives, with new arrival Goode, who is rumoured to have been spotted in filming already.

Goode has just starred with Downton’s Allen Leech, who plays character Tom Branson, in The Imitation Game, the Alan Turing biopic featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightly.

A spokesman for Downton has now confirmed: “Matthew Goode will appear in the Christmas episode as a guest character.”

This week, ITV finally confirmed the much-anticipated sixth series of the show will go ahead, suggesting Sunday’s finale will leave running storylines far from neatly tied up.

Aside from Lady Mary’s love triangle, fans of the show are waiting for the resolution of dilemmas from Lady Edith’s secret child to the murder investigation shining a spotlight on Anna and Mr Bates.

Preview pictures from the show capture the married couple behind bars, with Anna in a police line-up, while Tom makes up his mind whether to flee Downton to make a fresh start in America.

Lord Fellowes, the creator and writer of the drama, has already begun plotting the next series, which will start filming next year.

Cast members will also appear in a charity special, and will be joined by Hollywood actor George Clooney for a sketch in which the Dowager Countess faints after receiving a kis

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As “The Good Wife” goes on hiatus before season 6, spoilers regarding the status of its illustrious cast have surfaced.

After the exciting and somewhat traumstic season 5, “The Good Wife” executive producers Robert and Michelle King promise that season 6 will be just as exciting. One way they are going to do that, according to spoilers by E! Online, is to have Matthew Goode stay with the cast.

“We love what he’s doing. What’s nice is he’s a very different color to have on the show,” said Robert King. “It’s almost like a feature-like pacing in his acting…You’re very aware of it. You’re aware of these off-beat pauses that he brings to it. It’s very theatrical and very not Josh Charles, which is good too, so it doesn’t feel like we’re copying things.”

Another exciting change in “The Good Wife” season 6 is that Diane will join Florrick/Agos.

“Where we’re kind of heading is toward her taking on some of the characteristics of Will. In many ways, she didn’t have to be the tough fighter because she had Will. Without Will, she’s taking on some of his characteristics,” added Robert King.

Spoilers also confirm that Kalinda will go with Diane, which could possibly bring back the much-missed rekindling of Kalinda and Alicia’s friendship.

“The relationship between those two is just too pure and too great not to continue,” agreed Robert, regarding Diane and Kalinda leaving together.

Spoilers also confirm that “The Good Wife” season 6 will see the fallout of Cary and Kalinda’s rupture in their relationship.

“It’s too interesting to see how Cary, who thinks he’s disrespected by Kalinda and Kalinda now thinks Cary is pushing things in an odd direction with her, how they’re either going to make up or get worse,” said Robert King

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The Good Wife is getting a little more Goode in season five. Matthew Goode has been upped from guest star to series regular for the remainder of the current season, E! News has confirmed.

The Watchmen star made his first appearance in “Dramatics, Your Honor,” the 15^th episode of the season and the one featuring that shocking twist. Yes, that twist. Goode will appear in the follow up, “The Last Call,” and have a pivotal scene with Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies).

A source close to the show said Goode will stick around for the rest of this season, but couldn’t comment on his status for the recently announced sixth season. News of Goode’s casting first as a recurring guest star broke in December.

Series co-creator Robert King told TVLine Goode was brought in to fill the void left by Josh Charles. “Josh created a great jolt of male energy in the show. We wanted an equivalent jolt once we knew Josh was leaving,” King said. “So no matter what way Josh was leaving the show, we knew we needed to get more male energy.”

Goode’s other credits include Leap Year opposite Amy Adams, A Single Man and Match Point. On the hit CBS drama Goode plays Finn Polmar, a hotshot prosecutor in the state’s attorney office. He was facing off against Will Gardner (Charles) in the Jeffrey Grant (Hunter Parrish) case. He survived the shootout and attempted to help Will, who ultimately lost his life. “The Last Call” will deal with how everybody reacts to Will’s death and sets the stage for what’s to come for the rest of the season and Alicia’s life.

“Of course there’s gonna be this hole in her life, but how she fills it and how she starts to question her choices—‘Why am I doing this? Why am I representing these a–holes?’—suddenly it’s black and white. There’s no gray area,” Margulies said at a screening of The Good Wife. “A death, I think—anything important that happens in someone’s life is a game-changer, and it makes you hopefully a better person for it. You’ll see this tremendous loss for her, but the choices she makes from them on are incredibly careful, and they’re mostly about her.”

The Good Wife airs Sundays, 9 p.m. on CBS.

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