Los Angeles Times - 26.11.2019

»I think everyone

felt, well, I certainly

did, quite nervous —

like going back

to school after

some holidays or

something. But after

30 seconds, you get

back into the swing

of it.

MICHAEL FOX

ACTOR

Michael Owen BakerFor The Times

T

he 2019 Envelope Livescreening

series showcased “Downton Abbey”

this month at the Montalbán Theatre

in Hollywood. The Envelope wel-

comes a select audience of Holly-

wood guild members and awards

voters during the season to consider

some of the year’s most talked-about films, followed

by Q&As with cast and filmmakers, moderated by

journalists from The Times. For videos of these ses-

sions, please visit latimes.com/screenings.

The Times’ Yvonne Villarreal moderated the

conversation with actors Joanne Froggatt (Anna

Bates), Kevin Doyle (Mr. Molesley) and Michael Fox

(Andy Parker) and composer John Lunn.

On television, the chronicle of an early 20th

century aristocratic British family and its domestic

servants received many honors for its high produc-

tion values. The big-screen adaptation, according to

Doyle (by way of “Spinal Tap”), turned all that “up

t o 11.”

“It was on our third day of shooting, and we’d all

been told to go onto this field,” he said. “It said in

the script, ‘The troop parade in front of the king,’ it’s

just a line of script.

“We turned up in this big field ... and we were

sort of chatting away ... and the earth started to sort

of rumble. In the far distance, all these horses

started to come around the corner, with cannons.

‘OK, we’re doing a movie.’ ” 8

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»It was such a

surreal but lovely,

nerve-racking

feeling. You want to

do the movie justice

and elevate things

from what were

done before.

JOANNE FROGGATT

ACTRESS

Michael Owen BakerFor The Times

THE ENVELOPE LIVE

King-size version

The big-screen

incarnation of

‘Downton Abbey’

turns it ‘up to 11.’

Even the cast

was impressed.

MICHELLE DOCKERY,

left, and Elizabeth

McGovern, center, return

to “Downton Abbey.”

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THE ENVELOPE LOS ANGELES TIMES TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2019