WARNING: This story contains major spoilers for theDownton Abbeymovie.
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First, we loved to hate Thomas Barrow.
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Then, we hated to love him.
“For him to finally have a culminationit was a lovely moment.”
“It’s such a beautiful, heartwarming scene,” he remarks.
“Hopefully they’ll meet again, but the question is left wanting.
I loved the fact that he got a happy ending.”
“That changed the narrative for Thomas.
Though he also admits that he sometimes misses just getting to be bad for the fun of it.
“The devilment’s gone out of him,” he notes.
And this is what it’s like if you were gay in them times.
It grounds us and reminds us how far we’ve come.”
“The dancers, the music, the details down to the furniture were absolutely fantastic.
There was no acting required, I was like, ‘Wow, this looks amazing.’
It’s beautiful.”
Barrow reacts strongly to it partially because his identity makes him more defensive by nature.
“He can be a bit more paranoid than the next man,” he reflects.
“Because he has to live a life behind closed doors and keep his true self and identity inside.
It’s a question of experience.
A principled, romantically optimistic Thomas?
Will the wonders ofDownton Abbeynever cease?
Downton Abbeyis now in theaters.
