'Downton Abbey': Jim Carter and Phyllis Logan Talk the Carsons' Honeymoon
One of the highlights of Downton Abbey’s final season has been the wedding of butler Mr. Carson (Jim Carter) and head housekeeper Mrs. Hughes (Phyllis Logan). This week, Carter and Logan are the guests on the official Masterpiece Studio podcast in an installment appropriately titled, “Mr. Carson & Mrs. Hughes… The Honeymoon’s Over.” Yahoo TV has a sneak peek above. Hear the rest of their interview tonight at 10 p.m. on iTunes and Stitcher.
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The actors discuss Carson’s endless nit-picking of his new wife’s cooking. “You’d think he’d just be delighted the fact that she’d agreed to be his wife. And the fact that he was now having some intimacy that he hasn’t had his entire life,” Logan says.
“I think I’m sublimating my disappointment in the bedroom,” Carter jokes. “That’s all I can read into it, my darling. … I think the honeymoon in Scarborough, it can’t have gone well.”
While their characters vacationed, Carter and Logan got some time off from the show. And just like Carson, Carter missed Downton so much he got a hold of old black and white postcards of Scarborough from the era and sent them to cast members (via their characters). In fact, the one he sent to Mrs. Patmore “stayed on set and was actually filmed quite a lot, part of the set dressing,” he reports.
Carter didn’t reveal who received the “vulgar” postcard, but he did say what it read: “Mrs. Hughes is quite enthusiastic. Please excuse the wobbly writing.”
So maybe that honeymoon was satisfying after all.
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The full podcast will include individual interviews with Carter and Logan sharing more behind-the-scenes stories and character insights, as well as a roundtable discussion of episode six’s big moments. Subscribe to the Masterpiece Studio podcast on iTunes and Stitcher, and get all the latest Downton news on their website.
In honor of Mr. Carson, relive ‘Downton Horror: Rise of the Machines.’
Downton Abbey airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on Masterpiece on PBS.
