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* [[Reality Subtext]]: In Series 2, Downton is turned into a recovery house for troops from World War I. Highclere Castle, where the show is filmed, was opened as a hospital during the war.
* [[Real Life Relative]]: Kevin R. McNally, who played Mr. Horace Bryant, is married to Phyllis Logan, who plays Mrs. Hughes.
* [[Separated At Birth Casting]]: Ruairi Conaghan is particularly well-cast as Tom's older brother, and shares similar features, the same sandy hair colour and even the same pale blond eyebrow colour with his on-screen sibling.
* [[Stunt Casting]]: The casting of Shirley MacLaine as the [[Grande Dame]] Martha Levinson is done for all the right reasons — what other American actress could possibly go head-to-head with Dame Maggie Smith in the battle of the matriarchs?
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
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