Getting the band back together for the big-screen debut of Downton Abbey made the Brexit negotiations look like a “walk in the park,” according to producer Liz Trubridge. Trubridge was speaki…
made the Brexit negotiations look like a “walk in the park,” according to producer Liz Trubridge.
“Finding a window in which everybody had time, that 10-week period in which we could get that huge cast together [was a challenge],” Trubridge said during the Focus Features panel at the Ham Yard hotel. “The poor lawyers at Carnival said that bringing this cast together made the negotiations for Brexit look like a walk in the park.”
The Focus production, which was released this summer, had long been rumored and Trubridge said that she, creator Julian Fellowes and Carnival Films boss Gareth Neame began discussing it during Season 5 of the series, which was a huge hit on PBS Masterpiece in the U.S.
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