Jace Lacob on S2E02, Michelle Dockery on Mary's relationships with her sisters, Lavinia spoiler
* Jace Lacob @ the Daily Beast is already onto the 2nd episode of series 2:
Please join me in stomping foot as we await the premiere.
* Michelle Dockery talks to BANG Showbiz about Mary's relationships with her siblings in S2. What she says about Edith isn't that different from what we heard before (eg. her interview in the press pack), but her comment on Mary-Sybil is definitely a new spoiler: However, Mary will grow even closer to her youngest sister Sybil (Jessica Brown Findlay) much to the latter's annoyance. Michelle told BANG Showbiz: "In the second series Mary becomes quite protective of Sybil almost to the point where she's really annoying and that's so true of real life, I'm the youngest sister in my family and I can see the similarities. Julian (Fellowes) writes sisters so well."
* The New York Times has added a BTS picture of Zoe Boyle to their Magazine profile of Julian Fellowes. In itself it's innocuous but spoilery if you know the timing of their visit to Highclere Castle:
The morning was rainy, and despite it being late June, the wind was sharp. It was just as cold inside the castle as out; every actor in costume donned floor-length down coats between shots. The rush was on to finish the season’s last two episodes, because Highclere is open to the public during the summer. One episode was being filmed on the main floor; the other, upstairs.
End of June is also when Carol Vorderman visited the set and took this picture:
Later in the same article, there's a slight spoiler about Sybil but doesn't mean it takes place in the eps. they saw being filmed as Liz Trubridge was relating an anecdote re: Fellowes: “Julian is very lovely until he doesn’t like something, and then he’s not backward in letting you know,” she said. “He has such a way with words, and he certainly can use them to great effect when he wants to. He’s a historian as well as a writer. We had a scene in which Sybil baked a cake for the first time as a surprise for her mother. We shot the cake on the table with plates, forks and napkins. Julian was very upset about this. He said the upper classes would eat with their fingers.” She sighed. “Apparently it was true.” The show employs a historical adviser who agreed. No forks.
Please join me in stomping foot as we await the premiere.
* Michelle Dockery talks to BANG Showbiz about Mary's relationships with her siblings in S2. What she says about Edith isn't that different from what we heard before (eg. her interview in the press pack), but her comment on Mary-Sybil is definitely a new spoiler: However, Mary will grow even closer to her youngest sister Sybil (Jessica Brown Findlay) much to the latter's annoyance. Michelle told BANG Showbiz: "In the second series Mary becomes quite protective of Sybil almost to the point where she's really annoying and that's so true of real life, I'm the youngest sister in my family and I can see the similarities. Julian (Fellowes) writes sisters so well."
* The New York Times has added a BTS picture of Zoe Boyle to their Magazine profile of Julian Fellowes. In itself it's innocuous but spoilery if you know the timing of their visit to Highclere Castle:
The morning was rainy, and despite it being late June, the wind was sharp. It was just as cold inside the castle as out; every actor in costume donned floor-length down coats between shots. The rush was on to finish the season’s last two episodes, because Highclere is open to the public during the summer. One episode was being filmed on the main floor; the other, upstairs.
End of June is also when Carol Vorderman visited the set and took this picture:
Later in the same article, there's a slight spoiler about Sybil but doesn't mean it takes place in the eps. they saw being filmed as Liz Trubridge was relating an anecdote re: Fellowes: “Julian is very lovely until he doesn’t like something, and then he’s not backward in letting you know,” she said. “He has such a way with words, and he certainly can use them to great effect when he wants to. He’s a historian as well as a writer. We had a scene in which Sybil baked a cake for the first time as a surprise for her mother. We shot the cake on the table with plates, forks and napkins. Julian was very upset about this. He said the upper classes would eat with their fingers.” She sighed. “Apparently it was true.” The show employs a historical adviser who agreed. No forks.