Downton Jabby 2 on way: Hugh
VACCINE champion Hugh Bonneville is lobbying his Downton Abbey pals to have the jab so they can get on with the movie sequel.
Hugh, who has been volunteering as a marshal at his local centre, said: “Here’s the deal. If everybody who is offered a vaccine takes a vaccine, we can make a movie, we will make a movie.
“It’s the usual thing. The planets are circling. They are beginning to get into alignment.
“There is a thing called coronavirus knocking around and until that is under control, we are not going to be able to get all those ducks in a row. Mixing my metaphors here.
“But there is certainly the intention to do it.We would love to do it, we are desperate to do it.
“It’s the sort of pleasurable release of a movie, like the first one, that audiences would enjoy after this mess we have been through.” Hugh, 57, who plays the Earl of Grantham, also told Zoe Ball on Radio 2 about his volunteering in West Sussex.
He said he “joined the vaccination team a few weeks ago, only to discover we were to be offered a jab as we are client-facing – seeing hundreds of people a day”.
The star added: “I took the jab, along with dozens of others in my volunteer group and thousands of others who are volunteering around the country and are very grateful for it.
“I realise that has caused some controversy because I’m younger than others. But I’m older than others too – and I hope I’m just doing my bit.
“We are all on the path to getting a jab and I urge everyone to take it.”
The first Downton Abbey film, also starring Jim Carter, 72, grossed more than £170million worldwide in 2019.