A jobbing actor until he was 55, now he is the writer who can do no wrong. He won an Oscar for Gosford Park, scored a worldwide hit with Downton Abbey and now he's retelling the Titanic story from a new perspective
Where does Julian Fellowes look most at home? I don't know. All I can say is that he sticks out like a sore thumb on the set of Titanic, his latest series for ITV. To be fair, this is a rather weird spot. We are in Budapest, though the eye will scan the horizon for fabulous Habsburg architecture, charming street cafés or even a glimpse of blue Danube in vain. For this is a suburb where foreign TV and film companies come to shoot on the cheap, Hungarian carpenters apparently being so much more economical than those at home. Behind me are several outsized trailers. In front is a canteen that would look familiar to anyone who attended a northern comprehensive in the 1980s. And somewhere beyond all this, inside a vast and terribly overheated industrial shed, is a huge wooden reconstruction, albeit not quite full-size, of the great ship Titanic. Also, a colossal water tank in which some lucky actors – the cast includes Toby Jones, Celia Imrie and Linus Roache – will shortly get to play at drowning.
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