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Mike Leigh and the improvisation of film art

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You also kept the production design very realistic. The apartment the Drakes lived in for example was tiny, with walls curtained off.

The truth is that people lived in these situations. In that flat where we shot the family, there was an improvised bedroom for Sid and Ethel. My sister had lived in a flat of two rooms made out of one room when we were kids, so I knew that is what it was like. Had you visited us shooting in the flat in East London, you would have been astounded at the large number of people and the camera and all that was crammed into this tiny place on the fourth floor. It was winter and nightmarish, and the guys had to schlep everything up and down. But that is what it took.

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