Mesmerised - behind the scenes at the trailer

 From early morning to late in the evening

Names left to right in each photograph

Dawn

Coral Amiga as Blanche

 

  Coral Amiga as Blanche

Philip Lowe as Dr Paul Gachet 

                                                                 

Coral Amiga

Teodora Bergland and crew

Philip Lowe and Teodora Bergland 

                                     

        Rehearsal

   Anna Astrom and Teodora Bergland

Anna Astrom as Bella

with

 David James Fleet, Humphrey Hardwicke and Giacomo Hug

Philip Lowe as Dr Paul Gachet

with

Frederico Ghetta

Abandoned café

by

Lili Lea Abraham

Dressing room

Teodora Berrgland, Anna Astrom and Philip Lowe

Maria Vega as an artist's model

Making the Trailer for Mesmerised. Part three

Teodora, Lili and I got to the location at around 7.30 am on Friday.

Then, as Lili created the sets

I spent around six hours in London traffic collecting the costumes

from the National Theatre, lighting equipment from North West London, and buying fabric from John Lewis in Oxford Street. 

And Teodora continued producing

Having collected the costumes, and on my way to get the lights, I got a call from Teodora asking where I was. She needed  a lift back to the location. I was in Victoria. She was in Knightsbridge.

How lucky was that?

When we finally, finally, got back to the location at around 7.30pm, Fabrizio Accetulli had arrived.

He's our director of photography and the guy in the above picture wearing a white tee-shirt and standing next to Teodora. Not the guy walking up the stairs, that's Giacomo Hug, our first assistant director.

At around 10.30pm, after a relaxing meal at The Day of the Raj, I was pooped and had to call it a day. I believe the others stopped working at about 2am. They were due to start work again at 7am the next morning. It was to be our big day, the day of the film shoot ...