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Article: Masters of the time machine You've read the book, now watch the drama on TV. JASPER REES reports from the set of Longitude
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 29, 1999
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ONE day last summer, two centuries rubbed shoulders in the
Chilterns.
Jeremy Irons was clambering about in those tweedy 1920s threads he
wears like a second skin. It was as if he had mutated back into
Charles Ryder, in whose mournful guise he announced himself in
Brideshead Revisited nearly 20 years ago. This was his last day on
set, but the first for Michael Gambon, wearing the knee breeches,
frockcoat and dangling wig of 1720s man. Fresh off the sets of Sleepy
Hollow and Wives and Daughters, it was as if he was planning the
whole of 1999 in the past.
This was the only day in the long shoot of Longitude when the two
halves of the film collided. If ever there was a story about the
tricks ...