The actor on why Julian Fellowes' Titanic was a welcome berth in icy waters
Geraldine Somerville spent a lot of time during the shoot for the ITV series Titanic being extremely damp. "It was really challenging," she says, recalling the filming in Budapest, where the largest indoor water tank in Europe (900 sq m) had been specially constructed. "It was boiling, boiling hot weather and we were trying to pretend we were really, really cold… When we were in the water tanks, you saw the steam rising around us. We stank. There was something in the lifejackets which, when we sweated, it was horrible – like hamster cages that haven't been cleaned out."
Such indignities aside, Somerville, 44, enjoyed her time on set playing the snobbish Countess of Manton in Julian Fellowes's dramatisation to mark the 100th anniversary of the liner's sinking. It is his first project for ITV since Downton Abbey...
Geraldine Somerville spent a lot of time during the shoot for the ITV series Titanic being extremely damp. "It was really challenging," she says, recalling the filming in Budapest, where the largest indoor water tank in Europe (900 sq m) had been specially constructed. "It was boiling, boiling hot weather and we were trying to pretend we were really, really cold… When we were in the water tanks, you saw the steam rising around us. We stank. There was something in the lifejackets which, when we sweated, it was horrible – like hamster cages that haven't been cleaned out."
Such indignities aside, Somerville, 44, enjoyed her time on set playing the snobbish Countess of Manton in Julian Fellowes's dramatisation to mark the 100th anniversary of the liner's sinking. It is his first project for ITV since Downton Abbey...
- 3/25/2012
- by Elizabeth Day
- The Guardian - Film News
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