Earlier this year we learned that Shirley MacLaine, who guest stars on the forthcoming season of Downton Abbey as Cora Crawley’s mother, was introduced to the period drama by her hairdresser. “I walked into my hairdresser lady in Malibu, and they were talking about [Downton Abbey],” she told a group of reporters in July. “I thought, ‘What do they mean?’” Shortly after the enlightening hair appointment, MacLaine received a call about playing Martha Levinson and agreed to meet with the show’s creator, Julian Fellowes—not, it seems, because she was addicted to the series after binge-watching it for a full week but because, like many of us, she was particularly taken by the Crawleys’ honorable valet. She explained in an interview with The New York Times:
I think I wanted to meet Bates [played by Brendan Coyle], basically. And of course Julian, being so wily, arranged a lunch at which nobody else was there but Bates. I guess he was seeing if he was cougar-able. Or something.
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