The Downton Abbey costume designer has worked with the franchise for years.  However, a new era has arrived with “unknown” challenges.

The Downton Abbey costume designer has worked with the franchise for years. However, a new era has arrived with “unknown” challenges.

Costume designer Anna Robbins has been making custom-made costumes for productions for years. Indeed, in the world of Downton Abbey Alone, she worked with the franchise for a time, having drawn for the series for the past two seasons, as well as the first. center movie. However, the last one followed A new era It presented a number of challenges, mainly due to the film’s filming schedule, which took place in the summer of 2021 and created particular difficulties for Ms. Robbins and her team.

Covid was a time for many film productions and we have heard of films as varied as they are Mission: Impossible 7 who went to great lengths to manage the security protocols to Jake Gyllenhaal Fault – who filmed it on Zoom – on the challenges of the film industry. speak first Downton Abbey: a new eraStreaming and digital preview Anna Robbins shared some of the particular challenges that her department has faced, which really shows that every part of the productions has been affected in recent years.

This particular film was a challenge because it was much bigger than the previous one, in terms of costumes it was much, much more prolific. The number of days in the story and the number of costumes needed weren’t double, but it was definitely more than the previous one: we made 350 costumes in the workshop, something like that. There was 24 days of history, not everyone is in every scene, but it’s Downton, there are a lot of main actors and as a whole, so it was a challenge.

On a visit to the UK first Downton Abbey: a new era Digital version, streaming, Blu-ray and DVD we were able to visit Belchamp’s room, where The big scene of Tom and Lucy’s wedding Charles Raymond and his family, owners of the facility, also described to me the tents that covered the lawn to host Covid tests and more to ensure that the big moments of the shoot could happen, so it wasn’t just the team client who saw the challenges with shooting a much bigger movie this time around.

Likewise, for Anna Robbins, the “strangest challenge” wasn’t simply the number of costumes to create to fit a story set in both the UK and the French Riviera. She said the challenges of Covid also made her job very difficult this time around.

I think the strangest challenge was preparing during Covid. You know, I’m a designer. I like to touch the fabric and look at it in natural light and see how it will behave in front of the camera. We were unable to visit the fabric shops. We weren’t able to visit the vintage shops. So we look for work digitally, on our phones. So there were some amazing surprises where things happened and they were better than I thought. And there have been some nasty surprises where things didn’t go the way we thought online. So it was a challenge, but I guess the bright side was that we had to cast a much wider net and find things that we otherwise wouldn’t have found in all corners of the world.

Anna Robbins definitely knows how to turn sour lemons into lemonade here, and kind of reminds me of that what director Simon Curtis also told me about the film’s original dark ending and turn it into something to celebrate, which also became a positive moment at the end of the film. In the end, there may have been more challenges Downton Abbey: a new era compared to previous films, but A new era it’s a delightful sequel and manages to hit a lot of solid notes for its fans.

If you haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, you can do it with a Pavone Premium subscription This is order your copy now (opens in a new tab) . Blu-ray and DVD copies of A new era are now available for pre-order (opens in a new tab) and will officially arrive in homes on July 5, although Digital is already available.

Source: Cinemablend

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