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So that, of course, meant we had to discuss his experience on Downton Abbey. When he first signed on for the show, Stevens did have a few TV mini-series under his belt, but Downton was his first full blown series so we discussed the biggest surprises and challenges of jumping into a production like that for the first time:.

You had 20 main characters really, plus the house! And so it was a really interesting jigsaw puzzle putting that thing together. It should be said that when we started that job though, it felt very much like any other British period drama that we were making. You know, there were some really sort of bizarre things that it became.

Film executives — people who really should know better — say, 'Are you in the movie? Do you know how that ended? Related: Downton Abbey 2 : Cast, release date and everything you need to know. So, if you were secretly hoping for a Matthew Crawley cameo in the upcoming Downton Abbey movie sequel , think again.

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You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. More From Television. Practically overnight, Stevens became the black sheep of UK drama, or an abject monster we collectively decided was to be destroyed at all costs. It was all very, very silly. It was also exposing. The pale and moon-faced star of a cosy ITV soap was suddenly chiselled and tanned, his career aspirations interpreted as an arrogant rejection of the UK as a whole.

The UK has always had a strange relationship with British stars pursuing fame in America. If a British actor spends years on a soapy melodrama being generally decent if not wildly exceptional — meaning not Sarah Lancashire or Suranne Jones neither of whom tried to crack the US — they will be jeered at for striving for something bigger.

In , former Emmerdale star Adele Silva was photographed working in a Los Angeles clothing shop shortly after moving to the US to find acting roles. It was written about in newspapers as if it was a humiliation.