I tried to get people at ‘South Park’ into ‘Downton Abbey,’ and it didn’t work. I think they were like, ‘Downton Abbey?’ What?’ And I kinda made a big plea in the writer’s room, like, ‘Guys, you should really watch it. It’s good. It’s addicting. My wife and I are obsessed with it.’
I am a huge ‘Downton Abbey’ fan – huge!
At the end of the day, whether it was in a little church or Westminster Abbey didn’t matter: it was me, as a brother, doing a reading for my sister and her husband at their wedding, and I wanted to do it right.
I mean, you can’t walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won’t happen – it has to suit the grandeur of that aisle, it’s enormous.
I think the reason why people love ‘Downton Abbey’ is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice, some are not, but it has nothing to do with class or oppressors versus the oppressed.
I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since I’ve been in ‘Downton Abbey,’ which has made me much more fashion conscious.
For dramas, I love ‘Downton Abbey.’ I’m a sucker for the BBC.
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