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Dec 11, 2012 · Julian Fellowes On The Rules Of 'Downton'. Jim Carter as Mr. Carson in Downton Abbey. The third season premiered on PBS Sunday. Julian Fellowes may be the Baron Fellowes of West Stafford,...
Dec 3, 2015 · Julian Fellowes, creator of "Downton Abbey," talks about growing up as a baron, his take on Western class systems, and the end of his beloved series.
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“I think the Americans responded to the warmth of the series,” Fellowes said in a recent interview with azcentral.com. “They don’t like negativity as a people, in my opinion. They respond to positivity, and it was a positive show, an optimistic show.” “Optimistic” may or may not be the best word to describe the current zeitgeist, but Fellowes, who ...
Fellowes got his start as an actor but moved on to screenwriting and helped adapt “Little Lord Fauntleroy” and “The Prince and the Pauper” for the BBC. A script based on Anthony Trollope’s novel “The Eustace Diamonds” was never filmed, but it did catch the eye of actor (and occasional producer) Bob Balaban. “In another part of the forest, he was tr...
That film was 2001’s “Gosford Park,” an exquisitely spare deconstruction of familiar tropes that featured Maggie Smith playing one Countess of Trentham,a fictional appellation that would become Grantham on TV. Smith being Smith (i.e. one of the greats), the two performances aren’t at all the same, but the similarities do make “Gosford” look like a ...
So, how did he become an expert on English manor houses? Fellowes was not born into the aristocracy, but his father was a globe-trotting diplomat who certainly would have known the difference between a marquess and a viscount. “I was very lucky because I got interested in history — in my family’s history and all that sort of thing — when I was quit...
Married to the daughter of an earl, Fellowes became a baron in his own right in 2011 — the year after “Downton Abbey” premiered — when Queen Elizabeth II elevated him to the peerage (a lifetime honor, not a hereditary one). That put him in the House of Lords, as a Tory. If “Downton Abbey” is a throwback to a less cynical time, so is Fellowes’ brand...
Fellowes isn’t responding to any particular criticism, but “Downton” has gotten some, of course. A rape subplot in season four raised eyebrows because a housemaid was targeted by a predatory stranger, even though then — as now— most sexual assaults were committed by men who knew their victims. The broader question, though, is whether the show’s alt...
In addition to its warmth and optimism, “Downton” became a hit because audiences fell in love with the characters. Some, like Smith’s grande dame, are juicy stereotypes brought to life by world-class actors, but all have become true collaborations between writer and performer, Fellowes says. “I had never experienced writing for performances you’ve ...
According to “Downton” producer Gareth Neame, the show could have gone on to a seventh season if not for Smith’s decision to leave, but talk of a movie version began immediately. Fellowes never expected it to happen. “People now say, ‘Oh, surely you saw there was bound to be a movie,’” he said. “I mean, no. I thought the end of the series was the e...
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Jan 31, 2016 · Then again, who are we kidding? When we look back on Sunday night’s episode, all we’ll recall is that Banquet of Blood. Somewhere, just off screen, I see Baron Fellowes’s gargoyle grin.
May 25, 2022 · In a recent Zoom conversation, Downton Abbey and The Gilded Age creator Julian Fellowes reflects on her evolution—as well as that of the series itself.
Jan 10, 2014 · What he means is that he did not grow up with servants waiting on him hand and foot, as people have seen done for the Crawley family on Downton Abbey, the hit television series Fellowes...
Fellowes was the screenwriter and one of the producers for Downton Abbey, which was released in September 2019, and its sequel, Downton Abbey: A New Era. Most members of the cast of the television programme appear in the movie versions.
