Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan discuss Netflix film The Dig, research behind preparing roles for period drama The Dig s cast dissects the making of the historical drama and how director #SimonStone kept the actors “very unrehearsed, very free, very spontaneous.” Still from The Dig. Image from Twitter
Godalming, England Entirely covered by earth, only his face visible, Ralph Fiennes lay patiently in the ground. Simon Stone, the director of the new Netflix drama,
The Dig, peered at a monitor, then nodded. “Let’s go,” he said. Fiennes shut his eyes, and a waiting crew poured soil over his head, burying him completely. Carey Mulligan dashed forward, panic-stricken, and began to frantically scrabble at the ground.
Recreating an Archaeological Discovery From the Ground Down
“The Dig,” on Netflix, revisits the astonishing find made by two amateurs in Britain as World War II was dawning.
Carey Mulligan as a landowner and Ralph Fiennes as a laborer in a scene from “The Dig.”Credit.Larry Horricks/Netflix
Published Jan. 22, 2021Updated Jan. 26, 2021
GODALMING, England Entirely covered by earth, only his face visible, Ralph Fiennes lay patiently in the ground. Simon Stone, the director of the new Netflix drama, “The Dig,” peered at a monitor, then nodded. “Let’s go,” he said. Fiennes shut his eyes, and a waiting crew poured soil over his head, burying him completely. Carey Mulligan dashed forward, panic-stricken, and began to frantically scrabble at the ground.
Not an entirely smooth disinterment but satisfying all the same.
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Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes head the cast of Simon Stone s period drama about the excavation of an ancient burial site on an English estate as World War II looms, also featuring Lily James and Johnny Flynn.
Class as much as gender constraints obscured the achievements of 19th century English paleontologist Mary Anning, magnificently played by Kate Winslet in Francis Lee s slow-burn elemental love story
Ammonite. And class barriers continue to marginalize the work of Ralph Fiennes self-taught archeologist Basil Brown almost a century later in
The Dig. Simon Stone s account of the revolutionary 1939 discovery of a burial chamber that shed new light on the Dark Ages takes a somewhat awkward swerve midway from what s primarily a two-character piece into a larger ensemble drama, somewhat diffusing the emotional center. But the storytelling is laced with a gentle thread of melancholy that makes
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It was the most terrifying moment of my career! the star said. I was responsible for getting the soil away from his face. As the cameras came down, all I could think was: Don t let me kill Ralph Fiennes!
It was just one of several tactics used by director Simon Stone to inject a real sense of urgency and adventure into his screen version of John Preston s historical novel.
The book is a stirring fictionalised account of the famous 1939 excavation at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk, where the royal burial ship of an Anglo-Saxon king was discovered by self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown (Fiennes).