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Good question.
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Again, the Seychelles islands didn't cooperate
quite as well as we had hoped -
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we arrived on location
with a film crew of around 200 people,
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actors raring to go,
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and itjust poured rain for days and days
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and we stood under these tip-ups,
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watching the rain drip away
our money and our schedule.
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With the wisdom of Tim Bevan
and the generosity of Universal Pictures
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we were allowed to stay until
we got the weather we'd come for
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and I think it was well worth the wait.
:23:44
Because it adds a wonderful
additional element to the picture.
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These shots are gorgeous, 3 and 5 together.
:24:07
Well-cut sequence as well.
:24:13
Anyway, in the casting of these three heroes,
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Mary Gail Artz, who worked with me
on Clockstoppers,
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did the casting in the States
and she literally saw about 3,000 people.
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I came back to LA for a weekend
:24:28
and we had a workshop
with about a hundred actors on Saturday.
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From that hundred we cut it down
to about 40 on Sunday.
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And on Sunday we mixed and matched
:24:41
certain Alans with certain Tintins
and certain Fermats.
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Then we sort of boiled this down
to about nine or ten actors,
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two or three actors for each part.
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And from that we found