By CHRIS HASTINGS Last updated at 3:13 AM on 4th March 2012
The touching telephone calls made by the victims of the 9/11 attacks to their loved ones are as heart-breaking as they are unforgettable.
Now Julian Fellowes has revealed how the ‘haunting’ messages of love have influenced his £11 million new drama about the sinking of the Titanic.
The Oscar-winning Downton Abbey writer said the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, and the loss of the ship on April 15, 1912, had produced strikingly similar acts of heroism and sacrifice.
He said: ‘I was very moved by those people who rang their wives and husbands during 9/11, not to say “Help me. I’m trapped” but to leave messages of love. To say, “I love you and I’m glad I married you.”
‘The passengers in the water also behaved like that. The cries they heard from the lifeboats, when the ship had gone down and the people were in the water, weren’t all “Help, help”.
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