HARD AT WORK 10

Nick Townsend pre-torture

Matthew John manhandles Jonas Mortensen

Jonas on camera, Hugh Edwards is a monitor hog.

Shooting in Shad Thames

Andrew Cockerill, Mark Tierney, Hugh Edwards, Philip Carson
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There Will Be Blood

Nick Townsend as 'Peter Denby'

NIL is not a violent film but we did have fun with the Peter Denby torture sequences. Its not Hostel, but we do cut his toes off, and perform other unspeakable acts on his person.

In recompense, Callas (Meredith Ostrom) does strip down to bra and pants to do it.

PS: P T Anderson was robbed. I mean ROBBED. I could go on about this for hours.

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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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Peter Denby

Nick Townsend as 'Peter Denby'

Peter Denby has the worst time in this film.

He has a stressful early morning, then gets kidnapped and tortured, and eventually dies!
Nick Townsend played him across 2005-2006 like a trouper and we could not have a had a better performance of this difficult, nuanced character.

If anyone is watching closely, you'll notice the very subtle difference between the two shoots. The above shot is from 2005. Once we're doing the Callas/Peter post from 2006, we'll post the before and after.

The 2006 version. Same shirt, same room, completely different background.

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