《唐顿庄园》主演续签,避免“大表哥离开”重演1.docVIP

《唐顿庄园》主演续签，避免“大表哥离开”重演 难度：适中 来源：Dailymail Downton Abbey bosses have locked stars into watertight contracts – to avoid another shock exit like the death of Matthew Crawley in last year’s Christmas Day episode. 为了防止 《唐顿庄园》上一季圣诞特辑中大表哥马修突然离世的剧情重演，投资人和演员们签订了无懈可击的合同。 The move comes after creator Julian Fellowes failed to stop Dan Stevens, who plays Crawley, from quitting the ITV drama despite going to extraordinary lengths. 由于制作人朱利安·费罗斯没能成功阻止饰演大表哥的演员丹·史蒂文斯的离开，剧组不得不下此狠招。 Fellowes, the Oscar-winning writer of the film Gosford Park, told The Mail on Sunday last week he even offered Stevens alternative storylines that would give the actor time to pursue other projects. 曾因《高斯福庄园》荣获奥斯卡最佳编剧的费罗斯上周日告诉《每日邮报》，他甚至提出为了便于丹·史蒂文斯同时接拍其他剧集而修改故事主线。 His suggestions included relocating Stevens’s character to Washington so that he would only have to appear in a few episodes. 他提出的建议把包括让“大表哥”远赴华盛顿，这样丹·史蒂文斯可以在后面剧集中再露面。 Fellowes also tried to postpone Matthew’s death at least to the beginning of the next series, so that the Christmas Day episode could have ended on the good news that Matthew and Lady Mary had become parents. 他甚至希望将“大表哥”的死推迟到第四季开头的几集，以便第三季圣诞特辑能以马修和玛丽为人父母圆满结局。 Fellowes said: ‘We asked Dan if he’d come back at the beginning of series four and die in the first episode so that we could have Christmas sort of clean with the arrival of the new baby. But Dan was set on a clean break at the end of series three and he said, “I really feel it’s right for me to go and finish now.” 费罗斯说：“我们问丹能否在第四季回归，然后第一集再安排死去，这样圣诞特辑就能以迎接新生儿作为结局。但是丹决定在第三季彻底结束，他说‘我真的觉得还是让我离开，并在这里结束好’。 Fellowes added: ‘I was terribly disappointed at the time but Dan was totally within his rights. 费罗斯补充说“我对于这个时间点很遗憾，但是丹有这个权利。” ‘I don’t want to pretend he did anything out of order, because he definitely did not. He gave his notice but it caught us on the hop.’ “我并不想假装他违反了什么规则，因为他完全没有，他给了我们提醒但依然让我们措手不及。” The death of Matthew Crawley provoked an angry backlash from viewers who believed that the Christmas Day episode should have