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3:AM Magazine on the Edge of Love set
04 June 2007 at 09:29 PM | by Melty_Girl
Today's 3:AM Magazine boasts an insider story from the set of The Edge of Love. The online literary magazine's columnist, writer Sophie Parkin, is a friend of Edge director John Maybury, and she wrangled herself a bit part in the movie.
Parkin tells the amusing story of how she and her mother, writer/TV personality/painter Molly Parkin, fared playing pub-goers on 31 May's shoot. Both mother and daughter sound like fascinating people; Sophie recently wrote a hilarious article about Molly in The Daily Mail. But I digress ... you've probably guessed that Sophie met Cillian, right?
Cilian (sic) Murphy chatted away with anyone, to me he spoke about how his parent teachers from Cork hadn't wanted him to go into acting, the nature of the beast but how they were proud as anything now. I looked into his pale sky blue eyes and nodded dumbly, he could’ve been reading the telephone directory, he really was extraordinarily handsome; small but perfectly formed in his wartime uniform, with alarmingly large feet.
By about 4pm and we were all feeling a bit tail end, Mother saying she wouldn’t be an actor for anything, how madly boring it was, how infuriatingly slow the process of, one day and four or five minutes filmed, Cilian (sic) said you had to learn to turn off. Sienna (Miller) was bouncing about giggling and smiling saying, "Today's been so much fun, hasn't it? Don't you just love it?"
I'm afraid I vied on the side of my mother, I'm thrilled to be part of anything about Dylan, and especially by John Maybury, it all looks so beautiful and the script is funny and sharp, even if I end up on the cutting room floor I won’t mind, but one day was about as much as I could handle in the smoke filled boozer The Wheatsheaf circa '46 Soho.
The "alarmingly large feet" part cracks me up! Parkin's whole column is a really fun read; there's more about encounters with Cillian's co-stars, including her accidentally walking in on Sienna Miller in the loo! And her description of the scene she's in makes it sound like Cillian's character William Killick may bomb the pub, not just Dylan and Caitlin Thomas' house:
I ... light another disgusting Woodbine (continuity insisted) and re-do the walk past Sienna Miller who’s cart-wheeled herself across the floor, knickerless and laughing shouting, "Why wear knickers, it's only something else to wash," cue Sophie Parkin AKA Girl in Pub, me. I'm a listed extra no less, I walk past Sienna or Catlin Thomas, look at her with disgust before settling to discuss with Nina Hamnett look alike (played by my mother Molly Parkin), what terrible tarts those girls are lowering the tone of the pub, and that is saying something coming from Nina if you know her history, before the bomb goes off whereby I shriek and laugh hysterically and grab her drink!
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