![]() ![]() If a raspberry-meringue pudding goes wrong-mistakenly finished with a sprinkle of salt rather than sugar-then the dinner guests must retch terribly and the cook must be sent down to London for risky cataract surgery. A glass of water is a modern thing.” The water glasses were removed, and the scene, now more period-authentic, resumed shooting.īut, honestly, would it have made much difference? Who, besides Fellowes and a few monocled relics attuned to the same I-say-old-bean frequency, would even pick up on the anachronism of water glasses in interwar Britain?Ĭorrespondingly, much of the drama of Downton Abbey hinges upon the grave consequences of the mis-done thing. “Liz,” he said, addressing Liz Trubridge, one of the show’s producers, “we’ve got to get the glasses of water off the table. But a room away, watching on a monitor, Julian Fellowes spotted something amiss. They were talking over tea-decompressing after a particularly trying day in 1920. Gathered at a long, plain dining table familiar to viewers of the series were the dastardly footman Thomas, the glowering lady’s maid O’Brien, the saintly head housemaid Anna, and assorted lesser drudges in the employ of the Crawley family. ![]() On an afternoon last spring, the set in use was the servants’ hall. This is where many of the interior scenes for Downton Abbey, the TV show, are filmed. To go “belowstairs” at Downton Abbey, one doesn’t actually descend any stairs, but, rather, enters into a drafty, warehouse-like building at Ealing Studios, in West London. ![]()
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