 [Sam
Breckman, Location Manager]...I looked at the Ordinance Survey map to
try to find a house for Longbourn near Lacock...Then I drove and drove.
You get a sense of where to look, an instinct of which roads to travel
down. I saw a flash of ochre in the distance and thought, "What's
that?" and I arrived at Luckington Court. I thought, "I've found it!" I
knocked on the door r and introduced myself to the owner. She invited me
in and it seemed that everything we needed was there. We were fortunate
to find it all in this one place and even more fortunate in its owner,
Angela Horn, who positively welcomed the idea of our filming there.'
Gerry [Scott, Production
Designer] takes up the story. 'The fact that Sam found the right house,
in the right place, with a welcoming owner was a miracle! But Mrs Horn
had not had experience of a film crew before, and Sam and I like to make
it very clear to location owners what filming means. We both believe that
it would be desperately unfair to imply to an owner tha~ our coming to
their house would not be a major disturbance because it will be. You can't
move upwards of sixty or seventy people in and out of a house on a daily
basis without this being an enormous upheaval. So I think you really have
to be clear about the disadvantages. If the owner is still happy about
it, then it's fine we all know where we stand. Mrs Horn was absolutely
wonderful with us. She understood what our problems were likely to be;
she anticipated what we might need to do.' - The Making of Pride and
Prejudice p.23 |
