Edward Berger says he didn’t realize the BAFTAs were going his way until the final award of the night, when Best Film became the seventh trophy to add to his film’s haul. If he’d known that All Qui…
, Stanley Tucci, Lucian Msamati, John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini. Fiennes plays Cardinal Lawrence, who is thrown in at the deep end when the Pope unexpectedly dies. Charged with organizing an election to find the Catholic Church a new leader, Lawrence must deal with warring factions within the Vatican while at the same time questioning his own candidacy and the attraction of the power that comes with the post.
The director has been in Rome since October, and he says the production settled there out of necessity. “There are a lot of exteriors, and we need the Roman architecture,” he explains. “Obviously, if you’re only working in the studio, you can go anywhere. But also, we have to recreate the Vatican, because you cannot shoot inside the Vatican. We scouted a lot of countries—Hungary and Prague—and we just felt that the texture of Rome gives us the architecture that we needed for the film as a whole.
For this reason, Stage 15 has become “basically a reconstruction of the Sistine Chapel in real size. We’re six days into this set, and we’re filming the voting process.” That must be quite a tall order, to recreate the Sistine Chapel. How did he do that? “I didn’t do it, so I have no clue,” he laughs. “But it looks great. You’ll see. The ceiling obviously is not there. It’ll be CG. But everything else up to the first floor is built.
And, besides, he adds, “Rome isn’t the worst place to be. You’re away from the family, which is hard, but it’s really nice to experience a different country and work with different people from different countries and get to know the place in a really different way. I still feel like I live at home. I’m just taking two suitcases and coming to stay for a few months.”
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