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Screaming and laughing – that has been going on. Anyone who comes down to the set in Ealing (where we film the below-stairs segments) will know that it’s very ribald. I mean this is what is so lovely about it. You are looking like this, all buttoned up, but then yesterday we were all pretending to moon the camera! So we do have a laugh. Siobhan and Rob I would say are the main protagonists in that department…

- Phyllis Logan (x)

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phyllis logan

'but then yesterday we were all pretending to moon the camera'

what exactly goes on at ealing jfc

THE COMPLETE SCRIPTS: SEASON ONE

She sounds strict but of course she isn’t. He looks at her.

WILLIAM: You’re a kind woman, Mrs. Hughes.
MRS. HUGHES: So you’d miss me, when I’m gone?

Is she joking? It’s hard to say.

WILLIAM: I don’t know how this house would run without you. I don’t, truly.
MRS. HUGHES: Stop flannelling and get on. Before I betray you to Mr. Carson.

He goes, but his words have helped her with a decision.

(Source: elsie-hughes)

whoops one more pseudo-mother's day self-indulgent set of caps sorry

if you think anyone else made her stay at downton you're wrong and that's the whole beauty of her decision

it's mostly her but william is the one who makes her reconsider herself

one day i'll write about people deciding to stay at downton and it will be tedious and boring

why did your relationship get cut out in the editing and dropped in s2 no one knows no one knows

well i mean logically i do know but

i will still mourn it

happy?? mother's day?? again??

(Source: elsie-hughes)

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cora crawley

violet crawley

they've been showing up a lot recently haven't they

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i was like 'hey vee you should do something for mother's day'

'bc this show is about matriarchs and they matter 2 you'

then i realized that a) i'm an inherently lazy creature and b) baftas are tomorrow and c) this is a week filled with summative projects and

which is why the blog has been pretty quiet as of late

but here a thing

and more things to come once this month stops kicking me while i'm down

(Source: elsie-hughes)

digging through my drafts idk have a thing

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nicest human being mr. mason

the masons also have really pretty windows

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take the farm daisy

or don't

just tell me what you're going to do

mr. mason and joe burns tied for nicest male human beings in this whole affair

maybe it's sth to do with being old and having facial hair maybe that's the secret

I was recently sent an amusing picture of a cat, as one is these days, and I showed it to [Maggie Smith] and she fell around laughing. And for the rest of the week it started every morning with ‘show me the cat again.’ So it’s now become my thing that I try to find hilarious animals to show round.

- Laura Carmichael (x)

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laura carmichael

maggie smith

god bless dame maggie tbh

if she isn't one of your favourite human idk what to say

(Source: elsie-hughes)

this blog still makes things other than tedious and/or unnecessary text post i swear

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cora crawley

a cap a day

rewatches are really great because you find all these super pretty shots for you to bastardize and ruin

can the ep of downton with these singing chars be like that episode of arthur where arthur wanted to bring in francine’s musician uncle to the library and d.w. wanted to bring in yo yo ma and like rose will want to bring in new hot guy and probably like maggie smith wants the opera singer dame but at the end they’ll all come together and sing crazy bus

it will be beautiful

important text posts

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Absolutely. I think Maggie’s actually looking forward to getting Shirley back so they can have another go at it - round two. We’ve got to call it a Downton version of rumble in the jungle. Bashing in the pantry.

- Julian Fellowes [x]

'Maggie Smith looking forward to another rumble in the jungle with Shirley MacLaine'

julian fellowes

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drmadwoman

(seemed relevant to you somehow)

'rumble in the jungle' tho

bashing in the pantry

(i really don't mind the influx of old ladies that are stopping by bc that was the opening o

f s3 was solid and fun so i have faith in that)

(just give cora a scene with her mom jfc)

“One of the things I love about Maggie is she has no sense of what her face is doing.”