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🗓️ 10 May 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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We’ll speculate, tease and celebrate the new character’s potential as they mix with the regular cast in this latest film. From the incoming actors to Downton to the locals in France, casting director Jill Trevellick will share how she casts a show like Downton and what it was like getting the new cast on board.
Music by John Lunn
Don’t miss the new film Downton Abbey: A New Era. The motion picture event returns this Spring.
This episode of Downton Abbey: The Official Podcast is produced by Somethin’ Else in association with Focus Features, Universal Pictures International and Carnival Films.
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0:00.0 | Hello, you're listening to Downton Abbey, the official podcast. |
0:09.9 | I'm Anita Rani, and over the last five episodes of the podcast, I've been chatting to everyone from the Downton Abbey world, |
0:17.1 | as Downton Abbey, a new era, arrives in cinemas. |
0:20.8 | Over the past couple of weeks, we've done a deep dive into the characters above stairs and below stairs, |
0:26.2 | and this week it's time to meet some of the new arrivals to the Downton world. |
0:30.5 | I did a film with Julian actually years ago. |
0:32.8 | For everyone else in that film got parts in Downton except me, I don't know. |
0:36.9 | We've been teased about two central storylines that run through the new movie, |
0:41.2 | the one featuring the dashing fellow you've just heard from, Dominic Quest, |
0:45.0 | takes place at the castle. |
0:46.6 | But the other is wrapped up in a mystery involving a trip to France. |
0:52.0 | This is the first time the Crawleys and their entourage have gone abroad. |
0:56.7 | And Hugh Bonneville, who plays Robert Crawley, tells us how they got on. |
1:01.7 | Cannot wait to disappear into the South of France with all of you. So how does the sort of British |
1:05.8 | aristocracy, how does that sort of play out in the South of France when you do meet these new characters? |
1:12.5 | What do they care about, kind of the Lords and the Ayers and Grace is the British aristocracy? |
1:17.4 | Well, it's funny, it's more of a case of the British taking, or rather Mr Carson taking British sensibilities to France. |
1:24.2 | He insists on wearing his full butler's gear in the heat of the south of France. |
1:29.6 | Because standards have to be maintained. And of course, his philosophy on speaking of foreign |
1:33.6 | languages to speak English but louder. And that will normally get through with your foreign |
1:38.8 | So we have some fun with Brits Abroad, basically. Brits abroad, absolutely. |
1:42.8 | Poor Carson, he must be cooking in those heavy clothes. |
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