Hugh Bonneville: Elizabeth is my work wife (VIDEO)

By Patrick McLennan
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Hugh Bonneville: Elizabeth is my work wife (VIDEO)
Hugh Bonneville: Elizabeth is my work wife (VIDEO)

Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville has revealed that he and co-star Elizabeth McGovern have 'unwritten rules' when it comes to filming bedroom scenes. ITV1's new period drama is actually the third time that Hugh and Elizabeth have played husband and wife. In 2008, they appeared together in the three-part BBC comedy series Freezing. "Put it this way, we now have such an easy shorthand that when we're doing a scene set in the bedroom, we know exactly which side of the bed to get into," he told whatsontv.co.uk. "It saves a lot of faffing around in rehearsal." CLICK below to watch an interview with Hugh Bonneville

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.