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00:48:37
Hugh Bonneville, Phyllis Logan, Elizabeth McGovern
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their traditional kitchens and sculleries,
It's just... "The sprat to catch the mackerel."
there sort of was a catchphrase on the set of "Poor Edith"
Everybody's trying to throw him curveball,
by the social mores of the time that poor old Mary was.
He had a right to know how his countryman died.
CARSON: His lordship said much the same.
which is where our cameraman sort of straps a giant robot
But he's... you know, there's a toughness,
LEECH: Myself and Jess were joking,
the euphoria doesn't last long.
Wasn't there a masked ball in Paris when cholera broke out?
The chauffeur, Branson?
And having a little bit of badness in you
Countess of Carnarvon, got her father to fund a real hospital.
NARRATOR: It's a world away from the splendor of Downton Abbey.
the flavor of the month to suddenly being another pawn
a newspaper proprietor,
and fighting and bitterness and jealousy.
above and below stairs, Downton Abbey is in turmoil.
Oh, talk about making a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
NARRATOR: Lady Edith's plan of seduction starts
There was no sort of real rapport with her because she was
of vintage beading, but then it was sort of reimagine
Now, I'm kind of gutt, because I absolutely loved
(laughs) Oh, you exaggerate.
She's lovely, she's misunderstood."
You know, she sort of embarrass herself quite a lot.
in nursing injure soldiers back to health.
intimate relationships between staff were frown upon,
NARRATOR: For the characters who inhabit
An entail, yes.
We mustn't lose faith. He's been wrongly accuse.
You presume right.
JULIAN FELLOWES: When we were devising Downton, we knew it was
My lot inherit it.
STEVENS: Just gazing lovingly
it's a snatch moment of happiness.
and actually with Pamuk, she just... she just melt
The entail must be smash.
Yeah, she behave quite badly.
the great war accelerate the pace of life and love.
NARRATOR: Matthew Crawley has been thrust
It was inspire by a very early Chanel from 1919.
and was swept away by him.
That's cheer us up no end.
inordinately wealthy, self-made man.
He's a terribly romantically confused man, you know.
but I thought, metaphorically and literally,
STEVENS: Just gazing lovingly
He's a terribly romantically confused man, you know.
McGOVERN: Interestingly,
and underneath, the legs are kind of going wild,
slowly and quite surprisingly.
in the game again, which is incredibly frustrating for him,
Right there, you know, differently-timed explosions
You've got barely time to... well, I won't say it, but yes,
Literally has to fall flat on his face.
but essentially unmodern decision...
Perfectly, m'lord.
Obviously at the head of the chain is Carson.
Are you aware the seam at your shoulder is coming apart?
Unfortunately, in a way that only Julian can dream up,
Now, I'm kind of gutted, because I absolutely loved
At least there's one couple doing things properly.
I think they are truly in love.
LEECH: It is very slow-burning, and the whole way through,
very powerful indeed.
There's certainly a really great feeling
but essentially unmodern decision...
NARRATOR: Two unmissable series rising
You don't look disheveled to me.
and becoming sort of slightly ersatz toffs.
That's bad enough, but that's livable with.
The vast majority of aristocratic families,
NARRATOR: But Mary's scandalous story doesn't stay secret
She's not... she's impulsive in some ways, but when it comes
He can't escape his checkered past.
with someone else is intolerable.
NARRATOR: Downton Abbey's sumptuous setting is perhaps
completely unheard of.
Mary is irritated, frustrated, angered
He makes this, to me, admirable,
of Edwardian dress with none of the glamour.
as in the rest of postwar Europe,
She is not so charismatic as her elder sister.
and the relentless hard work left little time for romance.
Oh, what a dreadful thing.
Adiplomat dying in the bed of an earl's unmarried daughter?
It's beautiful and graceful and floating above the surface,
the most fictional is, in fact, based entirely on truth.
And that's why she has the rotten, miserable jobs,