[Monkey Face]

I think Dame Maggie Smith can play almost any role.

It seems I watched a clip on PBS this weekend about Highclere Castle. It was really quite interesting.

[moose07]

The cast list for you:

• Ian McShane as Waleran Bigod
• Rufus Sewell as Tom Builder
• Matthew Macfadyen as Prior Philip
• Eddie Redmayne as Jack Jackson
• Hayley Atwell as Aliena
• Liam Garrigan as Alfred Builder
• Tony Curran as King Stephen
• Sarah Parish as Regan Hamleigh
• David Oakes as William Hamleigh
• Robert Bathurst as Percy Hamleigh
• Alison Pill as Princess Maude
• Sam Claflin as Richard
• Skye Bennett as Martha Builder
• Emily Holt as Martha (Older)
• Gordon Pinsent as the Archbishop
• Natalia Wörner as Ellen
• Anatole Taubman as Remigius
• Donald Sutherland as Earl Bartholomew
• Götz Otto as Walter
• Skye Lourie as Elizabeth
• Jody Halse as Johnny Eightpence
• David Bark Jones as Francis
• Kate Dickie as Agnes Builder
• Sidney Johnston as Brother Jonathan
• Marl Phelan as Otto Blackface
• Tibor Pinter as Jacques Shareburg
• Freddie Boath as King Henry II
• Clive Wood as King Henry I
• Douglas Booth as Eustace
• Matt Devere as Robert of Gloucester
• Feodor Atkine as Abbot Suger
• Ken Follett as a merchant

took about a year to produce, at a cost of US$40 million