“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.
I spoke with Elizabeth McGovern via satellite from New York about her role in Woman In Gold, her musical side and of course working on Downton Abbey.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. The seven-person band was formed in 2007 with McGovern as the lead vocalist and picked up in popularity when Downton Abbey came along. The band’s website describes their sound as “a world of musical influences, from ’60s pop to country, esoteric folk to jazz, Celtic to torch songs.” In addition, according to the Associated Press, McGovern and her folk-rock band, will be embarking on a 10 city U.S. In real life, McGovern spends her free time jamming with her folk/country band, Sadie and the Hotheads and can be heard singing on the recently released Christmas at Downton. McGovern's husband of over twenty years Simon Curtis directed the film. In the film, Helen Mirren plays Maria Altmann, a real life elderly Jewish survivor of World War II who sues the Austrian government for the return of artwork the Nazis stole from her family. She has a small role in the film (playing Federal Judge Florence Marie Cooper) but says she was absolutely thrilled to be a part of it because she was so touched and inspired by the story. McGovern can currently be seen on the big screen in the drama, Woman in Gold opposite Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds.
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