Keeley reels at BBC penny-pinching

 
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14 December 2012

It wouldn’t have happened in Alfred Hitchcock’s day. So cash-strapped was the production of the new BBC1 drama remake of The Lady Vanishes, starring Keeley Hawes and Tuppence Middleton, that the crew were forced to forgo a gimbal that allows the set to rotate and create the appearance of a moving train.

The actors had to throw themselves around the fake carriage instead.

“We wanted a gimbal but that cost £64k that we didn’t have, so the actors had to sway around,” said director Diarmuid Lawrence after a screening at the BFI last night. “Even in the tea break the cast would be swaying in front of your eyes.”

Lawrence added that he does not like the Hitchcock original. “I will probably have things thrown at me but I am not a great fan of the film. I don’t think it shows the hand of the master as you see in his other films.”

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