New Centurion Clip Plus Interviews With Cast And Crew
Interviews with stars Michael Fassbender and Dominic West plus: How many litres of fake blood does it take to be considered the goriest film ever made in Scotland?
Centurion answers the question: What if there was a story about members of the Rome's legendary Ninth Legion army who survived the initial attack of the ferocious Picts and had to fight their way back home? A brand new clip has been released today:
Centurion - Clip One: Jump
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The Daily Record had a chance to go on set and talk to the cast & crew. Here are some of the excerpts:
Michael Fassbender stars as a Roman survivor Quintus Dias. He leads a group of soldiers on a raid of a Pict camp to rescue a captured general. He recalled working in a temperature that was -18 on day one:
"We were knee-deep in snow on day one. It was pretty cold, but you knew what you were getting on screen was going to look impressive. We travelled up the mountain in these Haglund vehicles, which are little tanks. We had a crack unit of filming - just the bare essentials.
"I really enjoyed the time we had in Scotland. It was beautiful. We went to some remote places close to Aviemore."
Dominic West plays the captured general, General Virilus.
"It looks really impressive. Fireballs roll down on to the phalanx, which forms around me on my horse. It's a cool scene. We had veterans in the stunt brigade who had worked on Gladiator, and they said the fighting was more complex.
"It made me feel like Russell Crowe," he laughed.
"When I read the script, I thought, 'This is a lot more lively and vibrant and daring in a way than most other scripts I'd read.'
"I don't know what the hell you'd call it, but there's a lot of good action and there are a lot of good characters."
Director Neil Marshall is quick to point out he wanted to show both sides of the story:
"I'm not portraying the Picts as cold-hearted villains. They are fully rounded people with good reason to want the Romans out of their country.
"Some of the atrocities we indicate the Romans have committed against them totally justify their actions."
The movie certainly has it's fill of battle and gore which prosthetic designer Paul Hyett admitted that they got a little carried away with the fake blood. There was even a "wagon of death" which was loaded with fake heads, torched bodies and buckets of blood.
"We started with about 200 litres of blood and about half way through the shoot, I think we had about 20 litres left."
"Each pump we were doing was similar to a litre, so afterwards I looked at the blood and thought, 'Oh God, that's about £500 worth of blood.' "But I knew it was going to be a Neil Marshall War Movie, so there was going to be loads of blood."
Marshall added "I wanted to depict it as it probably was, which is kind of brutal and nasty."
For the full interview and set visit, click the link below. Includes David Morrisey and the always lovely Olga Kurylenko
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