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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).