{"id":209089,"date":"2025-12-04T18:43:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/downton-abbey-gets-the-naked-gun-treatment-in-fackham-hall\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T18:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:43:01","slug":"downton-abbey-gets-the-naked-gun-treatment-in-fackham-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/downton-abbey-gets-the-naked-gun-treatment-in-fackham-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Downton Abbey Gets the Naked Gun Treatment in Fackham Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>What will Prince Andrew think of this movie?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Inman:<\/strong> Well, he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/story\/king-charles-issues-stinging-rebuke-andrew-stripped-of-prince-title-and-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just Andrew now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Andrew Dawson:<\/strong> I think getting a ticket to this is top of his priorities at the moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Inman:<\/strong> He\u2019s got nothing else to do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Andrew Dawson:<\/strong> Even within Britain, there\u2019s often a thinking, as ridiculous as it is, like, \u201cThe aristocracy, they\u2019re different to the rest of us.\u201d Like they exist in a different set of rules, and we somehow accept it\u2014particularly when you put 100 years between us and <em>Downton.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>O\u2019Hanlon:<\/strong> It goes back to fairy tales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Has <em>Downton Abbey<\/em> creator Julian Fellowes seen the movie?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>O\u2019Hanlon:<\/strong> Not that we know of, but he did, would you believe, come to Knowsley Hall where we were shooting. We weren\u2019t shooting on weekends and they said, \u201cLord Fellowes was going on a shooting party.\u201d Plus he is good friends with <strong>Sue Johnston,<\/strong> who played Great-Aunt Bonaparte. That shows you the authenticity of the location: It\u2019s still where lords gather for very expensive shooting parties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Your movie is done with care. I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll like it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Inman:<\/strong> It\u2019s done with love.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>O\u2019Hanlon:<\/strong> And <strong>Hugh Bonneville<\/strong> has been replying to Damian Lewis\u2019s Instagram posts with the thinking-man-with-the-monocle emoji.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Andrew Dawson:<\/strong> It was built to appeal to people who love that genre. Someone in our crew mentioned that [kitchen] staff are always chopping herbs, and so we made a joke out of that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>O\u2019Hanlon:<\/strong> I had seen a YouTube interview that said there\u2019s a practical reason\u2014because they\u2019re really easy to reset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Okay, for Americans: Why is Blackpool funny?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Andrew Dawson:<\/strong> It\u2019s a very famous seaside town where many people go, but it isn\u2019t glamorous. Arcades and penny gambling. Illuminations and donkey rides. But the tower there sort of resembles the Eiffel Tower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Oh, <em>now<\/em> I get the joke.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Andrew Dawson:<\/strong> She holds up the picture and you think she\u2019s going to say Paris, but it is Blackpool. Listen: I didn\u2019t know who Robert Goulet was until <em>The Simpsons.<\/em> Honestly, I didn\u2019t know what the Spanish Inquisition was before Monty Python.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Should this movie be a financial success, is there a <em>Return to Fackham Hall<\/em> script in the works?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>O\u2019Hanlon:<\/strong> <em>Fackham Harder<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Inman:<\/strong> We\u2019d love to do a sequel. We\u2019ve got ideas bubbling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/story\/fackham-hall-downton-abbey-parody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What will Prince Andrew think of this movie? Inman: Well, he\u2019s just Andrew now. Andrew Dawson: I think getting a ticket to this is top of his priorities at the moment. Inman: He\u2019s got nothing else to do. Andrew Dawson: Even within Britain, there\u2019s often a thinking, as ridiculous as it is, like, \u201cThe aristocracy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1224],"class_list":{"0":"post-209089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-comedy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}