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The Downton Abbey Cast Gets In On The Star Wars Hype

It’s kind of amazing to see what celebrities do for their favorite charity. In the case of Downton Abbey‘s Rob James-Collier (the ambitious Thomas Barrow) it was almost child’s play.

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Originally the actor set out to raise £10,000 to help the Chilterns MS Centre. In order to do that, he released a Star Wars parody video entitled Downton Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Valet in which his James-Collier’s Evil Butler faces off with the “Phantom Valet” John Bates (Brendan Coyle).

The thing is though, it easily reached the goal and became so popular, James-Collier produced a sequel, Downton Wars: Episode 2 – The Evil Butler Strikes Back.

Check out the actor explain the charity as well as the origins of the original parody below:

You can view the sequel, as well as donate to the charity at James-Collier’s EvilButler website.