Cue the sharp gasps and the “Oh no she DIDN’T” drumroll on Twitter: judging from a clip from the upcoming season of “Downton Abbey,” fans will get the period catfight they were hoping for when it was announced that Shirley MacLaine would be joining the cast to play the mother of Elizabeth McGovern’s Lady Cora.
At the American Film Institute’s recent ceremony honoring Ms. MacLaine with its lifetime achievement award, broadcast on TV Land on Saturday, audiences got a glimpse of the coming smackdown between Ms. MacLaine’s character, Martha Levinson, and Maggie Smith’s Dowager Countess. Wearing a feathered hat and black gown, Ms. MacLaine inventively calls the Dowager Countess old and says Downton Abbey hasn’t changed enough. Ms. Smith gives it right back. It’s like “Real Housewives,” with pearls and butlers.
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