“He always made me laugh. He was silly, funny and such a lovely guy to be around.”
She even spoke candidly about their antics while on set filming Speedway.
Nancy said: When we did our movie, he had a tandem [bicycle] made for the two of us.
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Nancy continued: “He’d say: ‘Nancy, let’s go for a ride’ and then we’d go off and within seconds all these Elvis fans would descend on us and we wouldn’t get more than a few minutes of cycling done. But it was fun. He loved life, he loved to laugh.”
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Is The Dig a true story?
According to the National Trust, who runs the site now as a tourist attraction, The Dig is based on a novel written by John Preston.
While the film is based on the novel, many of the events and characters depicted in both the film and the novel are inspired by real events and real people.
One of these is Edith Pretty who owned the Sutton Hoo estate and was the instigator of the first excavations, which ended up revealing some incredible medieval finds.
In July 1937, Edith wrote to local historians who eventually put her in touch with Ipswich Museum, which in turn saw her team up with self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown.
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Director Bong Joon-ho has been on the scene for some time, with his first film, a short called Baeksaekin (White Man), being released in 1994.
His first feature, Barking Dogs Never Bite, broke even after two years of its release, as word of mouth was building internationally to his work.
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His second movie was a much larger film, Memories of Murder, but sadly it was passed over by the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals.
The Host, Bong-ho’s 2006 movie, was the first which really got a lot of critical acclaim, and it played at the Cannes Film Festival and was even bought for an English-language remake.