Downton producer Gareth Neame’s grandfather worked on Hitchcock’s 1929 thriller Blackmail.
After 100-plus years as an art form, film is nothing if not self-referential.
“I felt this is how the owners must feel,” she tells EW.
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“Sometimes you do see them.
They don’t get involved, but they are around sometimes.
It’s quite high-alert.
It was a window into like what it must feel like for them.”
Let Lady Mary and her dulcet King’s English tones dub Myrna and audiences will be none the wiser.
Dockery tells EW that creator-screenwriterJulian Fellowesand producerGareth Neametook the turn of events directly from the making ofAlfred Hitchcock’s1929 thrillerBlackmail.
They had a similar issue with leading lady Anny Ondra, who had a pronounced Czech accent.
“That was fascinating, discovering what that time was like in the film industry,” says Dockery.
