Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Vanness and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

On today's episode, I'm joined by Alan, Leach, and Laura, Carmichael, aka Tom Branson, and Lady fucking eateth of Downton Abbey where I ask them.

Can I not have a nervous breakdown while I interview two of the most amazing cast members from Downton Abbey?

Welcome to Get Curious. I'm Jonathan Vanness. I'm literally going to shit my pants. We have not won but two cast members from the upcoming film Downton Abbey, a new era.

The film follows. If you are listening to this podcast and you don't know the name of, okay, fine, it's the Crawlies. It follows your journey as they go to this out the francey uncovered the mystery of the Dowager.

The Dowager Countess is newly inherited. Villa, it is such a stunning movie. I cried so hard. I literally need chills. As soon as I finished, I had to call my mom, both my aunties, my best friend Patty, I had to tell everybody they were like, I feel you about to spoil it.

And I was like, anyway, we literally have Alan Leach who is Tom Branson and we have Laura Carmichael who's Lady E. Dan. Welcome to Get Curious.

Thank you so much for having us. So let me take you back. And obviously we're going to talk about the movie, but I just have to take us back to 2013 in America.

We had to get your guys's DVD sets because we didn't have it on PBS yet. We were on this like horrific delay. Thank God, my step sister who introduced us to Downton was married to the Scottish man at the time.

We were able to get the hook up on the box sets before they came out here. It was like this whole thing. It really was emotional watching the movie because I feel like I've grown up with Downton. Like I have been watching it since it started.

My life has like, upended and changed 15,000 times. And it's my comfort food. It's like what I've seen at 50 billion times. I watched it many times in the 24 hours at the link.

I watched the movie. I watched like six times. Okay, fine. Maybe maybe three. Basically, if you're interested in watching the Downton movie, you should probably skip this entire thing because it's going to be spoiler alert central. Like I'm going to be doing like a full interrogation of this movie, not like a scary journalistic one, just like I'm the best like Fangirl.

Like you're going to be exhausted after this. Okay. So first of all, just in case anyone's been living under a rock, let's start with Alan only because Laura. I feel like as Lady Edith Honey, you were like, you know, you were giving upstairs.

And how to do a whole transition. It was a whole thing. I was like, Lady Edith has probably gotten it. Also, Lady Edith always had to go second. Actually, no, I was a birthday course. Lady Edith, you go first.

So what do you are in what your character is? Oh my God. And so I am Laura Carmichael. And I play Lady Edith, who is the middle of the chronic health. There's three sisters. She's the middle child, the problem middle child.

You sort of meet her and she's kind of she's a little bit nasty at times. She's kind of a little bit overlooked. She lives in Lady Mary shadow, the gorgeous lady married played by Michelle Dockrey.

And she has a beautiful kind gorgeous sister lady, civil who is married to Tom Branson, one point. Anyway, she has a full on journey through the season. She really becomes a modern woman.

Such a full journey. And also, can I just say sidebar I was just like a little bit trauma after season three. And I was like going through my grieving. I was like going through my feelings. And I was like, Jesus Christ, I just can't do this right now.

So I just like had to give it a pause. But it turns out this is like a controversial opinion, but it's true. I think season four and your journey with your baby honey.

When I watch it a few years after 2013, like what's the shock goes away? It's actually it's I think it's the best season. I just like it's so good. That story is so rich. I love it so much. And I just yeah, I have chosen my triceps and on my quads.

You took us on such a journey. I'm obsessed with going to get back there more later. Now Alan full disclosure. Obviously, I've had a crush on you for almost 10 years. You know, everyone knows it. It's totally fine.

And you're just your character is just such a charm or so gorgeous. Oh my god. See the three. I can't even talk about it. Like, oh, it's just. Oh, fuck. You just you took me there. Jesus Christ, you both are such good actors. I can't take it.

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