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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Louis Chilton

Downton Abbey’s Matthew Goode recalls Maggie Smith’s ‘favourite day on a set ever’: ‘We went through 22 bottles of rosé’

Downton Abbey star Matthew Goode has recalled a boozy day of filming on the ITV period drama that saw cast members go through 22 bottles of rosé wine.

Goode, 47, claimed that the late Dame Maggie Smith, who starred in Downton as the Dowager Countess of Grantham, had described the day as one that “might’ve been my favourite day on a set ever”.

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