![]() “Make the kids doe-eyed, cute and Dreamworks-cuddly – because that’s what they’re not. The film director (Stephen Daldry) asked me at an early stage what he could do to destroy the book. Their maths was impeccable, and without wishing to overdo the long-distance glamour, they displayed a survival instinct and a strength I found humbling. Many of them had never seen a school, but spoke three languages. ![]() Raphael and Gardo were delivered soon after, based on the tenacious beggar boys who’d come out at night as the drinkers got drunker – never to fleece or steal, but always to charm and cajole and beg that little bit more. That’s what we did, though – we stepped through the wardrobe for a moment into what was, to us, an upside down mad fantasy world of grimness. ![]() It sounds shameful, doesn’t it? To visit a third-world dump to stare, and then go home again to TV and a three-course meal. Andy Mulligan: we stepped through the wardrobe for a moment into what was, to us, an upside down made fantasy world of grimness. ![]()
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