Maggie Smith Says Next Season of 'Downton Abbey' Could Be Her Last
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The Dowager Countess depicter hints that her character can't live beyond the upcoming sixth season since she's already 110 years old.

AceShowbiz - Maggie Smith says her days on "Downton Abbey" are numbered. The veteran actress has added fuel to long-running speculation that the upcoming season 6 would be the last for the show. Even if it lasts beyond the sixth season, Smith thinks she may no longer be part of it.

"They say this is the last one, and I can't see how it could go on," Smith tells the Sunday Times when asked whether the sixth season will be the last season of the period drama series. She adds of her character Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, "I mean, I certainly can't keep going... To my knowledge, I must be 110 by now. We're into the late 1920s."

Series creator Julian Fellowes himself remains coy when asked about the future of the show. Saying that it's not his decision to end or continue the show, he tells New York Times, "I don't own 'Downton Abbey' now. NBC Universal [which owns Carnival Films] owns 'Downton Abbey'. So I could walk away, but I wouldn't walk away. It's too much my baby. It won't go on forever - I'm not a believer in that. But I can't immediately now tell you where the end will be."

However, when asked if he plans to depict the characters in post-World War II Britain, the writer adds, "For me, that would be a different series. Maybe people would say, 'Oh my God, that's baby George, grown up!' But I don't think it would be continuous, with Michelle Dockery with her hair covered with talcum powder."

Speaking about the next installment after the fifth season finale aired in the U.S., Fellowes teases that it may not go smoothly for [SPOILER ALERT!] Mr. Carson and Mrs. Hughes, who were engaged in the season finale. "Well, you know, 'Downton' is a bumpy path," he says with a laugh.

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