UK: FILMING IS UNDERWAY OF NEW FILM 'HONEST' DIRECTED BY FORMER EURYTHMICS GUITARIST DAVE STEWART

Record ID: 386640

  • Title: UK: FILMING IS UNDERWAY OF NEW FILM 'HONEST' DIRECTED BY FORMER EURYTHMICS GUITARIST DAVE STEWART
  • Date: 29th July 1999
  • Summary: KIRTLINGTON, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (29 JULY, 1999) (REUTERS) (PERFORMANCE CLEARANCE MAYBE REQUIRED BEFORE USE) GV'S OF "HONEST" FILM SET (UNDERLAYED WITH IMITATION SIXTIES' MUSIC)/ EXTRAS IN COSTUME MILLING AROUND NICOLE APPLETON AND PETER FACINELLI TALKING CAMERA MAN MOVING CAMERA START OF SCENE BEING FILMED DIRECTOR DAVE STEWART WATCHING SCENE THROUGH
  • Embargoed: 13th August 1999 13:00
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  • Location: KIRTLINGTON, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA1EJZXVPIVJDNLRGKR3Z38XB3F
  • Story Text: The psychedelic sixties drifted through the English countryside on Thursday (July 29) during the filming of "Honest", a tale of three thieving sisters on a collision course with the world of peace, love and understanding.
    Not content to rest on the success of his partnership with singer Annie Lennox with the Eurythmics, Dave Stewart has been working on this 'baby' for more than seven years.
    Having produced records for the likes of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, directed pop videos, composed soundtracks ("Cookie's Fortune") and even taken photographs of celebrities, Stewart is finally fulfilling his dream - to direct a feature film.
    "For about six or seven years, I've been surrounding film by doing film scores becoming a photographer, shooting film, directing shorts, and it's each time you do something you kind of go up a notch until you start to realise yeh I can possibly domost of these things.And then you just have to at one point jump off the diving board," he said.
    Stewart, 46, wrote the first draft of the script four years ago.He then asked veteran television writing duo Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais to finish the screenplay.Once funding for the film had been sourced, all Stewart had to do was find thecast.
    That process turned out to be far easier than he'd anticipated.Earlier this year he announced that three of the members of girl band, All Saints, Natalie (Mandy Chase) and Nicole Appleton (Gerry Chase) and Melanie Blatt (Jo Chase) were to play the three thieving sisters from London's East End in the swinging sixties, who get caught up in a robbery that goes terribly wrong.
    The girls from All Saints studied drama and music before forming a band, even so Nicole admits to having had a few nervous moments before filming began.
    "I tell you the most nerve-wracking experience was we did a read-through with the whole cast the day before and you know I thought I could handle anything, crowds, big crowds but that was with professional actors and I was like that.But otherwise no, it's so much fun," she said.
    For Stewart, the first three days of filming have gone swimmingly and having seen the first returns from shooting, he said he's happy.
    The first day of the filming of "Honest" began in Oxfordshire at Kirtlington Polo Club on Tuesday (July 27).
    Approximately eight hundred (800) extras were bused in from the nearby town of Oxford, to take part in a scene reminiscent of the legendary Woodstock festival.
    Other members of the cast include Peter Facinelli who plays Daniel Wheaton, Sean Gilder who plays the film's baddie The Hawk and Jonathon Cake who plays the son of a Lord.
    Shooting for "Honest" will continue for six weeks in Oxfordshire and London.
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