And the star cameo requests for Downton keep on coming with Allison Janney wanting to be Shirley MacLaine’s sister or Maggie Smith’s illegitimate daughter. Choices, choices.
Allison Janney wants to be an illegitimate Crawley in Downton Abbey
The Mom and West Wing star fancies revelling in the melodrama of ITV’s hit series – and she’s got her eye on becoming Maggie Smith’s illegitimate on-screen daughter
Allison Janney wants to swap cracking blunt jokes for sharing social niceties in hit ITV period drama Downton Abbey.
The Mom and West Wing star has said she’s keen to follow in the footsteps of American stars Shirley MacLaine and Paul Giamatti and bag a cameo alongside the Crawleys.
“The acting is just delicious to watch – the melodrama of it all,” Janney says in this week’s Radio Times magazine.
Janney already knows what part she’d like to play: ” I’d be Shirley MacLaine’s sister or Maggie Smith’s illegitimate daughter.”
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