Actress Phyllis Logan is known to millions of fans as the devoted and kind Mrs. Hughes from Downton Abbey. In Guilt Season 2 Hughes takes a jaw dropping turn to portray Maggie Lynch a wife and mother with a ruthless edge. In an interview with MASTERPIECE Logan discussed the epic twists and turns in the series her complicated character and the Scotland we see in Guilt.Plus for Downton Abbey devotees Logan looked back on her favorite moments from the series and talked about the question everyone is asking Will there be another Downton Abbey movieWhat can I say? Hang on into it. Keep on. Because you are absolutely right. Neil Forsyth who has written all of Guilt is extraordinary.
He has just an incredible writer. He has so smart and inventive. Some of the things he came up with are jaw dropping. But he does it with such reality and such humor that you just completely buy into it. All the characters are just so either bizarre or silly but you somehow love all of them even the ones who are terrible people really like Mark Bonnars character. He has an absolute shocker really some the things he does. But you can not help but like him.Well that was certainly part of the draw for me because she could not be more different from Mrs. Hughes from Downton Abbey as people might remember me from. So that was certainly a great enticement the fact that Maggie was just a bit of a horror really. Its lovely to play a nasty character rather than somebody that everybody says Oh she has lovely. Thats so nice. Its just great to mix it up a bit and be the demon of the piece.
When you first meet her you would imagine that she is what she appears to be this woman who has slightly disabled and she has got somebody that looks after her in assisted living. She has got her daughter who she sees all the time. They have a fairly reasonable relationship. But things are not all they seem to be as we discover as this series progresses. There are a few skeletons lurking in quite a few cupboards.That was a big challenge for everybody mainly for the pure production side of things because they had to make sure that everybody adhered to the rules and were wearing masks all the time. Obviously as actors we had to take our masks off when we were acting. I just felt so bad for all the crew because they were there for 12 hour days just with masks on the whole time We had to try just keep a certain distance if you went in a scene that required you to be very close together.
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