For Ralph Fiennes Basil Brown was an amazing man. The Suffolk-born actor talks about the self taught archaeologist who found the Sutton Hoo ship burial
Review: Netflix s The Dig excavates unexpected, worthy drama thanks to Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes theglobeandmail.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theglobeandmail.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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.
Mick LaSalle January 25, 2021Updated: January 29, 2021, 9:22 am
Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes star in “The Dig.” Photo: Larry Horricks
“The Dig” is the story of how priceless archaeological discoveries were made in Sutton Hoo, England. But you don’t need to know anything about that to enjoy the movie. Think of it, instead, as a satisfying human story about people involved in a fascinating project that starts off promising and ends up enormous.
Along the way, it deals with Britain on the eve of war it takes place in 1939, in the months leading up to the Nazi invasion of Poland and about the effort to recover artifacts of a lost civilization, just as modern civilization was hanging in the balance.