BlackBook - Jessica Wakeman, 9/9/12
Couched in another otherwise lovely article about Dame Maggie Smith's illustrious career on the London stage is a little gem about her new Downton Abbey co-star, Shirley MacLaine and how she regaled the cast with tales of UFO encounters.
Canada's The Star newspaper sat down with Smith prior to her appearance at the Toronto International Film Festival and of course they got around to discussing Downton. MacLaine has joined the cast in the upcoming season as Cora's mother visiting from America, who'll spar with Smith's character, the Dowager Countess, for the role of family matriarch. The reporter asked Smith how she and MacLaine got on:
We had great fun. She was a great shot in the arm for everybody. But when she talks about some of her stranger theories, you just listen. She told us in Sante Fe, there were UFOs up in the mountains and the bears were coming down to the local Starbucks as a result. I asked if they were all drinking green skinny lattes, but she never answered me.
More: blackbookmag.com.
