Steven Berkoff Video Excerpt

This is an excerpt from one of the biggest scenes in the film. Lawrence Masters (Steven Berkoff) is hosting his monthly big stakes poker game when Steve Lynch (Michael Greco) arrives to ask him a huge favour. 

The dialogue here is an ad lib of Steven's we turned into a mini-scene to introduce the Masters character. It perfectly captures the character's (and Steven's!) manic energy. 

We apologise for the grey-ing out at the beginning. That's a YouTube thing.

CHRIS HARKER 'Kristoff'

"Looking for some leather me old son?"

Chris Harker was the very first actor that auditioned for NAKED IN LONDON, in Feb 2004. He was unbelievably nervous and literally broke out in flop sweats. However, he has such a great face and presence there was no way we weren't going to find him a role in the film (in fact he also played the immortal Frank very well in a production of BLUE VELVET Jerome Scott and I produced for the Edinburgh Fringe in 2004, but that's another story). 

Eventually he became Kristoff, bodyguard and aide-de-camp to Lawrence Masters, played by Steven Berkoff. 

Visually, they're a well matched pair. 

- MT

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THIS WEEKEND: Lions Den & Peter/Callas

Steven Berkoff as 'Lawrence Masters'

Meredith Ostrom as 'Callas' and Nick Townsend as 'Peter Denby'

This weekend was spent putting the sound back on a pair of characters who were completely recast and reshot in 2006/7 from their 2005 versions. ( a longer post on the actors they replaced and why is forthcoming).
Both Steven Berkoff and Merdith Ostrom were joys to work with, and brought incredible energy to the project. Both characters are pivotal to the story, with 'Lawrence Masters' being the decadent mentor who in a brilliant and devastating cameo spurs the run in the first place , and 'Callas' the sexy, violent killer who pursues Steve Lynch through the film.

Berkoff managed 17 pages of dialogue in his day on set which is certainly a record on this film, and possibly many others. We also ran 4 cameras on that day, so sound sync took most of the weekend.

Some of you may recognise the lower set as being The Loft, the office and studio we were based at for most of 2006/7.

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