Downton Abbey Movie Pokes Fun at “Movie People” as Johnny Depp Trial Reveals Their Secrets

The similarities and contrasts between the fictional movie people on the screen and the real-life movie people in the daily tabloids couldn’t have been starker.

The running joke throughout the new Downton Abbey movie revolves around the horror the residents feel about “movie people” stomping about the grounds, putting their grubby, Hollywood hands on everything. 

At the start of the movie, Lord Grantham (a newly thin Hugh Bonneville) and company get an offer to let a London film company, Lion Films, shoot a sile…