{"id":918,"date":"2011-10-23T08:22:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T08:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=918"},"modified":"2011-10-23T14:43:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T14:43:57","slug":"e-v-a-neverland-panel-interview-syfy-press-tour-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"E.V.A.: Neverland Panel Interview Syfy Press Tour 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neverland is a Syfy original mini-series about the origin of Peter Pan. Set to air in\"\"<\/a> December on Syfy. Two weeks ago I was fortunate to participate in a panel interview of the stars of the series, Anna Friel (Captain Elizabeth Bonny), Rhys Ifans (James Hook) and Charlie Rowe (Peter).<\/p>\n


\nThe series is a new approach to the J. M. Barrie classic which has been \u201cDisney-fied\u201d for the last half century or so and is more adult. The stellar cast includes Bob Hoskins reprising his role of Smee from the movie Hook.<\/p>\n

The panel was led by Mark Stern, President of Original Programing for Syfy.<\/p>\n

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MARK STERN:\u00a0 All right.\u00a0 Let’s start the next panel, “Neverland.” We are very excited about this new, four-hour miniseries, which is going to be launching our countdown to Christmas week.\u00a0 It’s going to air Sunday, December 4th, and Monday, December 5th, at 9 p.m.\u00a0 That’s — I don’t think that’s new news, but I don’t care if I do.<\/p>\n

Mark Stern had been playing tones all morning<\/em>\u00a0 (Telephone app plays sounds of applause.)<\/p>\n

\u00a0Oh, stop it.\u00a0 “Neverland” is an origin story, actually.\u00a0 It’s about how the characters in J.M. Barrie’s classic became those\u00a0characters.\u00a0 And it was directed — written and directed by Nick Willing, who you may know from “Tin Man,” our most successful miniseries ever, as well as he was the veteran director of “Alice.”\u00a0 So it’s an amazing, sweeping epic adventure.\u00a0 We are very, very excited about it, and it’s going to launch Christmas week.\u00a0 So let me bring out our cast.\u00a0 Please welcome Rhys Ifans, Anna Friel, and Charlie Rowe.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Applause.)<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 Hello.<\/p>\n

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MARK STERN:\u00a0 So welcome, you guys.\u00a0 I think, before we get to questions, let’s watch some footage, actually.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Clip shown.)<\/p>\n

MARK STERN:\u00a0 So it’s just a little, teeny movie.\u00a0 So tell us —\u00a0before we open it up to questions for these guys, I have a couple\u00a0 of my own.\u00a0 What was it like to be part of such a classic story? Was it daunting for you guys, or how did it feel to be involved in something like that?<\/p>\n

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\u00a0RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 It wasn’t daunting.\u00a0 I mean, what’s daunting is, I guess, that we — that everyone knows the story of Peter Pan.\u00a0And what was appealing, I guess, for all three of us is that this goes a long way, if not all the way, to explain how Peter Pan becomes Peter Pan, how he acquires these magical powers and how Captain Hook loses his hand.<\/p>\n

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ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 I have a six-year-old daughter.\u00a0 She just went,\u00a0“Mommy, there’s no way you can’t not do ‘Neverland.'”\u00a0 She was very excited.\u00a0 She wasn’t too happy about the idea that I might\u00a0potentially kill Peter Pan.\u00a0 She thought that was stupid, but she\u00a0was very excited about it.<\/p>\n

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CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 I was pretty apprehensive because I, like, have quite big boots to fill.\u00a0 It was great fun, a\u00a0completely different story to the original story.\u00a0 I think we did it justice.<\/p>\n

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ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 Uh-huh.<\/p>\n

\u00a0MARK STERN:\u00a0 And, Charlie, I have to say it was really a\u00a0mind-blowing performance for someone your age.\u00a0 How old are you?<\/p>\n

\u00a0CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 I’m 15.\u00a0 Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

\u00a0MARK STERN:\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 To take on a roll that big is really impressive, if I do say so myself.<\/p>\n

\u00a0CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN:\u00a0 No.\u00a0 But I think — and what was it like to work with actors of that caliber?<\/p>\n

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CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 I thought I am incredibly lucky to work\u00a0with such great people and amazing actors.\u00a0 I learned a lot, particularly from Rhys and Anna.\u00a0 They are like my mother and\"\"<\/a>\u00a0father on the set even though my\u00a0mother and father were actually\u00a0on the set, and I —<\/p>\n

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ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 Big sister.\u00a0 Big sister.<\/p>\n

CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 I learned a lot — yeah, I learned a lot\u00a0from them.\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n

ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 You were an absolute pleasure.\u00a0 I think I’ve got a very bright star on the horizon sitting right next to me.<\/p>\n

\u00a0CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n

\u00a0MARK STERN:\u00a0 And, Anna, was that role — I mean, the role of a\u00a0pirate queen, as it were, was it as much fun as it looked?<\/p>\n

\u00a0ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 It was great fun.\u00a0 I just loved the costumes.\u00a0 I \u00a0played Bonny.\u00a0 We decided to make her Irish with the accent.\u00a0 And\"\"<\/a> Nick, our director and writer, was just a joy to work with.\u00a0 I think we did about a three-and-a-half, four-month shoot, and never once did he complain of tiredness, and he kept the energy on the set all the time.\u00a0 It was great, although we worked with a lot green.\u00a0 Green became our least favorite color.\u00a0 I was like, “Oh, another green screen.”\u00a0 The effects are amazing.\u00a0 I have not\u00a0seen it done to that degree.<\/p>\n

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RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 It’s cool, huh?<\/p>\n

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\u00a0CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n

\u00a0RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 It was nice to use the imagination.\u00a0 We had\u00a0these big boards that Nick showed us every day and said, “This green screen is going to look like this.”\u00a0 The whole imagination\u00a0was suspended in disbelief.\u00a0 It was a good challenge.<\/p>\n

\u00a0MARK STERN:\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n

\u00a0CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 And Nick also said at the beginning of the shoot, “We are going to end exactly 7:00 on our last day.”\u00a0 And after 54 days of filming, we ended at two minutes to 7:00, and I was just like — that was just, like, the icing on the cake.\u00a0 That was\u00a0awesome.<\/p>\n

\u00a0ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 I was so jealous of your flying.\u00a0 I wish I could\u00a0fly.<\/p>\n

\u00a0CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 It has a lot you should be jealous of.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0MARK STERN:\u00a0 Rhys, you have a very interesting character.\u00a0 Your character really starts — has to kind of navigate a good guy to\u00a0a bad guy and back again.\u00a0 What was that like?<\/p>\n

\u00a0RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 Well, I mean, it’s thrilling, and that’s the beauty of a miniseries is that, in a film, you wouldn’t have the time that a miniseries offers to explore such complexities.\u00a0 And it is a real, kind of, roller coaster, model roller coaster, for Hook. So, you know, thank you for giving us time to do that.<\/p>\n

\u00a0MARK STERN:\u00a0 Oh, it was nothing.\u00a0 My pleasure.\u00a0 Shall we open up to — open up to questions?\u00a0 Okay.<\/p>\n

\u00a0QUESTION:\u00a0 Hi, Rhys.\u00a0 We’ve seen kind of a resurgence of fairy tales in movies and television lately, the Boochies and white phones that are coming out in multiple shows.\u00a0 Why do you feel that’s happening now?\u00a0 And do you feel that there are certain projects that have happened lately that have kind of paved the\u00a0way for this?<\/p>\n

\u00a0RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 Well, you know, given this kind of fragile economic climate, you know, maybe there’s a need in all of us to escape to somewhere like Neverland where cash isn’t an issue.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 It’s one of the greatest stories ever written, and now, with all of the effects we have available, we want to see them retold and use those effects.<\/p>\n

\u00a0CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 Also —<\/p>\n

\u00a0RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 And — sorry.\u00a0 And I think these stories, you know,\u00a0they come in waves, you know.\u00a0 It’s a title thing, you know, and\u00a0there’s something kind of primal in all of these stories that speaks to everyone.\u00a0 That’s why we keep retelling them, revisiting them.<\/p>\n

\u00a0QUESTION:\u00a0 Rhys, mostly directed to you, but — and Charlie can answer, too.\u00a0 You’ve played a somewhat wide variety of characters on various movies.\u00a0 For this particular role of Captain Hook, was\u00a0there any particular inspiration you drew from for this role, or did you just kind of develop it, you know, as a fresh character?<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Well, I mean, what intrigued me was — no.\u00a0 We all know the Hook that we were presented with in the novel, and\u00a0that Hook is essentially bad to the bone.\u00a0 And I wanted to kind of explore a journey, you know.\u00a0 How would a man become that bad? What would it take for a man to shed pretty much all of his moral\u00a0fiber when — and what happens\"\"<\/a> to the mind when it’s offered\u00a0eternal life?\u00a0 Does it corrupt, or does it illuminate?\u00a0 In Hook’s\u00a0case, it corrupts, but it also liberates him from a very, kind of, stifled, unrepressed Edward in England.\u00a0 Bonny liberates him completely and sexually, which wouldn’t have been the case in England.\u00a0 Men was scared of women, and women were scared of men.So it’s a kind of double-edged sword, and it’s an interestingquestion, you know.\u00a0 What’s the price of liberty?\u00a0 So that was\u00a0all very, kind of, interesting to play.<\/p>\n

\u00a0MARK STERN:\u00a0 And an interesting surrogate father-son relationship\u00a0that you have —<\/p>\n

\u00a0RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0MARK STERN:\u00a0 — with Peter that kind of pays the price for that.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 That kind of — that kind of changes.\u00a0 You\u00a0know, that’s the kind of model dynamic, I guess, in the whole thing is our relationship, and as Charlie becomes — as Charlie\u00a0is — Peter becomes better, Hook becomes worse.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0MARK STERN:\u00a0 Right.<\/p>\n

\u00a0RHYS IFANS: \u00a0Yes, I think it’s very moving, that whole dynamic.<\/p>\n

\u00a0MARK STERN:\u00a0 It really is.\u00a0 Any questions?<\/p>\n

\u00a0QUESTION:\u00a0 Hey, guys, thanks so much for taking the time.\u00a0 I’ve\u00a0got a question about the action in the film because there are a\u00a0lot of fighting scenes and action scenes.\u00a0 How much training do\u00a0 you actually have to do for the fencing and the sword fighting, if at all?<\/p>\n

\u00a0ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 Go, Charles.\u00a0 What was it for fencing?\u00a0 You had a lot more, didn’t you?<\/p>\n

\u00a0RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 I’m just a natural.<\/p>\n

\u00a0ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 Huh?<\/p>\n

\u00a0RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 I’m just a natural.<\/p>\n

\u00a0ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 Yeah, you are a mighty fine fencer.<\/p>\n

\u00a0CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 No.\u00a0 We just — yeah.\u00a0 Me and Anna have had a lot of lunch breaks just trying to beat each other with swords, which was fun.\u00a0 And we did, like, long sessions on wires and stuff —<\/p>\n

\u00a0RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n

CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 — which is pretty exciting stuff.\u00a0 I mean, it’s\u00a0every boy’s dream and every man’s dream.\u00a0 I shouldn’t say just a\u00a0boy.<\/p>\n

\u00a0RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n

CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 Every boy’s dream to fight.\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 We had a\u00a0laugh, really.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 It’s great.\u00a0 You know, we did work quite intensely\u00a0initially on the fighting, and you kind of just acquire the skill.\u00a0 So as the fights progressed in the film, we spent —\u00a0because we were so — we became so adept early on, we spent kind\u00a0of less and less time because we became, sort of, fighting with direction better, but also, you know, CGI helps.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 I think the whole shoot was pretty intense, but I think Nick, the director, just sort of made it a lot less and\u00a0 just a lot more — a very happy place, really.\u00a0 The pressure\u00a0didn’t really get to us because Nick was just there, making us all feel good.\u00a0 He did a good job of it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>QUESTION:\u00a0 Hi.\u00a0 Good morning.\u00a0 I was just curious.\u00a0 Since there’s so much of Peter Pan out there and it’s kind of hard to avoid it growing up or being anywhere, how did you — like, what did you use for inspiration to try to make your characters unique, to try to make sure that we weren’t going through the same thing again, that you brought something totally different?<\/p>\n

\u00a0ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 I think we’ve already been given that with a very unique script.\u00a0 It was a very different take on it.\u00a0 It was a prequel to Peter Pan.\u00a0 So you were already telling a different story.\u00a0 And, for me, it’s a new character.\u00a0 So I had a massive\u00a0scope of choice of emotions and characteristics as to what to give her.\u00a0 There’s no Wendy.\u00a0 So that makes it — it makes it different from the first story.\u00a0 I don’t know.\u00a0 What —<\/p>\n

\u00a0CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 I tried to avoid watching “Hook” and all of thatbefore getting the part.\u00a0 I just tried to talk to Nick because I think — I think Nick — Nick Willing is Peter Pan, really.\u00a0 So I just tried to involve him into my part because I think — yeah, I think he’s still a child.\u00a0 If you meet him, he’s a complete child, and it’s his little baby, this film.\u00a0 And so I just tried\u00a0to involve him as much as I can into the parts I was doing.\u00a0 And,\u00a0 yes, my part is basically just Nick, very honestly.<\/p>\n

\u00a0QUESTION:\u00a0 Good morning.\u00a0 This question is for Rhys.\u00a0 I’ve always felt personally that Hook is kind of a one-dimensional character. You gave him a lot more depth, and I didn’t think your approach\u00a0was going from a good man to an evil man.\u00a0 It was more like a descent into madness.\u00a0 Would you say that was your approach?<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 Yes, absolutely, and I think eternal — the question of eternal life — and I have much to think about it — it is\u00a0 maddening, but we’ve got madness coming — a freedom.\u00a0 But that\u00a0 freedom eventually corrupts, I think, and it is a descent into madness.\u00a0 You are right.\u00a0 And I’m glad you noticed that.\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n

\u00a0QUESTION: \u00a0Thank you.<\/p>\n

\u00a0QUESTION:\u00a0 Hi.\u00a0 Thanks so much for talking to us.\u00a0 I’m curious. Everybody looks at Peter Pan as a family type of story.\u00a0 How would you say that “Neverland” will resonate with yours?<\/p>\n

\u00a0RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 Well, it is a family — the original is very much a\u00a0family story, and, you know, there are kind of dark, adult\u00a0themes.\u00a0 And I think that is the appeal of the novel and the\u00a0prequel, but it engages all ages.\u00a0 There’s questions of\u00a0\u00a0father-son and with a kind of union, Freudian sexual questions, you know.\u00a0 So there’s many kinds of emotional frets and dynamics that appeal to all ages, and particularly with “Neverland,” you know.\u00a0 When we read the novel, Hook and Peter are already embedded in Neverland.\u00a0 So I think what gives us another connection to Neverland is that we see them as — albeit in another time, but we see them as, you know, human beings who live\u00a0in a world where you eventually die.\u00a0 So we see what the wonder\u00a0of somewhere — in Neverland, somewhere like Neverland, what it\u00a0does to the psyche.\u00a0 And in Peter’s case, it makes him good, and in my case, it makes me very, very bad.<\/p>\n

ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 And in my case, it makes me evil.<\/p>\n

\u00a0RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n

\u00a0QUESTION:\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 MARK STERN:\u00a0 Well, Bonny is an interesting character because she\u00a0 actually has a whole different — she comes from a different time —<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 Uh-huh.<\/p>\n

\u00a0MARK STERN:\u00a0 — and has a different need and agenda, and into her life comes this kind of, like, new — it’s like when you’ve lived with the same people for a long, long time, and all of a sudden here come these new people to play with.<\/p>\n

\u00a0ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 She’s also the only woman around for 20 years. She’s not had any other\"\"<\/a> female company.\u00a0 So when Hook arrives,\u00a0it’s fresh, new blood.\u00a0 He’s one who can bring her knowledge from another world.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0MARK STERN:\u00a0 Right.<\/p>\n

\u00a0ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 I think she’s learned very manipulatively to letting her female — the power of her female prowess and how to use and\u00a0 abuse that.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN:\u00a0 And it is interesting in the way that she comes\u00a0between the father-son.\u00a0 It is this very, kind of, classic story of a woman that comes into a boy’s father’s life and what that does to that dynamic.<\/p>\n

\u00a0ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 I love the dark undertones of the story.\u00a0 I\u00a0think it makes it very available for both children and adults.<\/p>\n

\u00a0MARK STERN:\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n

\u00a0ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 I got both of those views from my daughter and from my mother and father.\u00a0 They enjoyed it for totally different\u00a0reasons, and I think that’s why it’s so appealing, because it\u00a0appeals to such a wide and varied audience.<\/p>\n

\u00a0RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 It’s also interesting, what you said, that it has that kind of stepmother theme-<\/p>\n

\u00a0ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n

\u00a0RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 — as well, which runs through so many fairy tales. I think another exciting, kind of, dynamic and an attitude is that we as humans in Neverland are the aliens.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN:\u00a0 Right.<\/p>\n

\u00a0RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 So Bonny is essentially visited by a superior technological species which, again, you know, is a theme that\u00a0runs through certainly a lot of sci-fi.<\/p>\n

\u00a0MARK STERN:\u00a0 That’s true.\u00a0 There’s a little alien in there, too. Any other questions?\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 These guys will be down here for —\u00a0I’m sorry.\u00a0 Did I miss someone?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 I’m sorry.<\/p>\n

\u00a0QUESTION:\u00a0 Obviously, “Neverland” is a prequel to “Peter Pan.”\u00a0 We’ve had that in the past with “Star Wars.”\u00a0 Is it true you are doing it with “Lord of the Rings”?\u00a0 What do you think makes movies like that where it’s so appealing to the audience?<\/p>\n

ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 Because the story is good to start with.\u00a0 You want to know what happened beforehand.\u00a0 That’s the only way you can go out and do sequel after sequel after sequel.\u00a0 I think we are intrigued about what happend before the story even started, and it seems to be — and I’ve followed others’ work thus far.\u00a0 And particularly with a story like Neverland, it has never been done\u00a0before.\u00a0 Why can Peter Pan fly?\u00a0 Why is there eternal life?\u00a0 Why\u00a0do you never grow old?<\/p>\n

CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n

ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 It’s kind of like an age-old vampire story in a way.<\/p>\n

CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 Every kid in the world has grown up with these unbelievable stories, and everyone has their own different idea of why and how they got there.\u00a0 And that’s why I think it’s great that we’ve got all of these different ones like “Wicked” and now “Neverland,” you know, coming up because it’s basically someone’s complete imagination.\u00a0 It’s — everyone has got a different idea of why they are there.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN:\u00a0 Great.\u00a0 One more in the back, way back.<\/p>\n

QUESTION:\u00a0 Good morning.\u00a0 I have one quick — a couple quick questions.\u00a0 First off, the scenery looks beautiful.\u00a0 I know a lot of it was shot on a chromakey green screen, that type of thing, but can you go into the locations of the shoot, how long it took\u00a0to shoot, how many people were involved in the whole process for this series?<\/p>\n

ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 We started off in Italy, and that was the most exciting part of the shoot for me.\u00a0 Was it for you, to be shot in a real boat?<\/p>\n

CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 I had been there for ages as well.\u00a0 I did a film about pirates in the 1800s as well.\u00a0 1900s.\u00a0 Excuse me.<\/p>\n

ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Wasn’t it plastics —<\/p>\n

CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n

ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 — the pirates they used for that?<\/p>\n

CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 Yeah, the pirates.<\/p>\n

\u00a0ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 And it still sits there today.\u00a0 We didn’t, obviously, take it out to sea.\u00a0 It was moored, but it was a spectacular thing to look at.<\/p>\n

CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 It was quite amazing.<\/p>\n

ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 The skies are the motor boat, a great big green screen.\u00a0 I loved that.\u00a0 When we were in Genoa, Italy and then Ireland for the rest of it —<\/p>\n

CHARLIE ROWE:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n

ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 — so two really remarkable locations with fantastic crews.<\/p>\n

RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 A lot of the exteriors were, you know — such as the Indian reservation or the Indian lands were shot in Parkland in Ireland.\u00a0 The London stuff, the exterior stuff, was shot in Dublin, which has a lot of Georgian architecture, which would have suited.\u00a0 And then “Neverland” ironically was filmed in a disused toilet paper warehouse just outside Dublin.<\/p>\n

MARK STERN:\u00a0 So romantic.<\/p>\n

RHYS IFANS:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n

ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 Yeah, but what you can do with computers nowadays, eh?<\/p>\n

\u00a0MARK STERN:\u00a0 I would say that there is probably a visual effects\u00a0or enhancement in almost every single shot of this miniseries. It is really quite extraordinary.\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 Well, thank you very much.\u00a0 These guys will be down here for the next 10 minutes or so\u00a0 to talk to you.\u00a0 Thank you, guys.<\/p>\n

ANNA FRIEL:\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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