Dame Judi’s cameo role worth the work, states Marilyn director
My Week With Marilyn is about a notoriously difficult film shoot: the making of the 1957 flop The Prince and the Showgirl. It paired the hopelessly mismatched talents of Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier.
The stars of the film, which is on UK release, are Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh, who have both been tipped for Oscar nominations for their performances as Monroe and Olivier.
Dame Judi’s appearance, however, in the much smaller role of Dame Sybil Thorndike, was also seen as crucial to Mr Curtis, and the film’s backers, BBC Films and Harvey Weinstein. The US film mogul helped Dame Judi achieve that eight-minute Oscar, for Shakespeare in Love in 1999, and did the same for Colin Firth in The King’s Speech last year.
The filming at Pinewood took two days, after which Mr Branagh returned to Los Angeles to continue editing Thor, the $150 million blockbuster he directed last year, while Miss Williams remained in the UK to hone her Marilyn performance. Dame Judi went on to India to film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for the Shakespeare in Love director John Madden, with Dame Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilton, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson and Dev Patel. That film is due for release on February 24 next year.
Mr Curtis admitted filming My Week with Marilyn proved fiendishly complex. He stated that ensuring characters looked at the correct people and objects in scenes which would later be joined with Dame Judi’s scenes took a great deal of effort. “We literally drew mathematical diagrams to make sure that we had got the eyelines right,” he added.
source : telegraph.feedsportal.com
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