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Read more: The Witness for the Prosecution: an Agatha Christie with ‘lots of sordid moments’įrom Sarah Phelps to Jack and Harry Williams: meet the visionary writers behind TV’s hottest dramas “And because Christian’s responses and reactions were different so other people’s performances changed with him, which was really interesting to see, especially in an ensemble piece.” “They are both very good performances but very different,” she says. In fact, Goldbacher says it was interesting to be able to compare Cooke’s performance with Westwick’s. There was no sense that I was being slotted into the role and had to do this scene this way or that.” “It turned out to be a really great experience – everyone was very sensitive and kind, and Sandra was clear from the beginning that I would have the freedom to give my own take on the material and do what I wanted. “There was no sense that I was being slotted into the role and had to do this scene this way or that” Christian Cooke “I wasn’t sure how everyone would react or what it would be like to come late to production,” he says. Photo: Mammoth Screen/ACL/ Joss BarrattĬooke, who was offered the role of Mickey 10 days before Christmas, says that while he was nervous, he couldn’t have been made to feel more welcome. Christian Cooke plays Mickey Argyll in ‘Ordeal by Innocence’. “I did keep saying: ‘But, Sandra, it’s snowing, how’s that going to work?’ She just said don’t worry.” Goldbacher says the skeletal trees actually helped as part of the story is set in winter. Sarah Phelps, the show’s writer, admits that while she was desperate for the drama to air – “because so many amazing people had put so much work into it” – she wasn’t sure how easy it would be to pull off. The fur coat that Anna wears had been borrowed and it was a bit of effort to get that back…” But the costume designer and props department had to re-source a lot of the costumes, many of which were original 1950s pieces from Rome and Paris. “For a start,the owner of the house we’d originally filmed in in Scotland liked what the art department had done so much that he’d left it pretty much the same. In total around 45 minutes of the drama were reshot.
“I did keep saying: ‘But, Sandra, it’s snowing, how’s that going to work?’ She just said don’t worry” Sarah Phelps, writer
“The most incredible thing about it was how generous the actors were – Bill Nighy said absolutely immediately and came for five days to reshoot, Anna Chancellor got stuck in the airport trying to get to us, Anthony Boyle flew in from New York, Matthew Goode, who was filming A Discovery of Witches, drove through the night and gave up his Saturday.” Photo: Mammoth Screen/ACL/ James Fisher/Joss Barratt The cast of ‘Ordeal by Innocence’, including Bill Nighy, Anna Chancellor and Christian Cooke (centre). “We’d just heard about Ridley Scott doing the same thing which helped.
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“It wasn’t a decision that was taken lightly but it was the only way that the series could be seen,” says Goldbacher. Instead the decision was taken in late December to recast Westwick – he was replaced by Christian Cooke – and reconvene the starry cast in Scotland for a 12-day shoot in the new year. Read more: Ed Westwick replaced in BBC drama Ordeal By Innocence reshoot after rape claims
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