Interviewed by
Alexander Menden
In “Downton Abbey” is the British Empire still intact, England its green, idyllic center and everyone knows the place allotted to it. Ever since Julian Fellowes, a member of the British House of Lords as Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, created the high-class soap opera for ITV in 2009, the English aristocratic Crawley family has become a global phenomenon. The 72-year-old, who won an Oscar for his screenplay for Robert Altman’s “Gosford Park” in 2002, struck a global chord with the story of the Earl of Grantham, his family and servants. The movie “Downton Abbey II: A New Era” starts in cinemas on April 28th.